Brief Life History of Mabel Cora
When Mabel Cora Barker was born on 4 March 1872, in Frankville, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States, her father, Charles Barker, was 49 and her mother, Sophronia Laura Angell, was 30. She married John James Van Wey on 31 March 1892, in Decorah, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Decorah, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Frankville Township, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 11 March 1957, in Frankville, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Frankville, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States.
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- Mabel Van Vey in household of John J Van Vey, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mabel Barker, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Mabel C Van Wey, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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