Brief Life History of Matilda Phoebe
When Matilda Phoebe Fenn was born on 20 May 1882, in Rodman, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States, her father, William Fenn, was 45 and her mother, Phoebe Amelia Booth, was 44. She married Thomas Wilson Jones on 12 September 1900, in Rodman, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in School District 35 Moore, Fergus, Montana, United States in 1920 and Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States in 1930. She died on 21 December 1949, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Rodman, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States.
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- Lille P Fenn in household of William Fenn, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Matilda P. Fenn, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Tillie Fenn, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1883 · Anaconda Established
In 1883, Marcus Daly established the town of Anaconda, Montana. It was at the same time that the smelting works in Anaconda was established.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name in south-east England for someone who lived in a low-lying marshy area, from Middle English fen(ne) ‘fen, marsh’ (Old English fenn).
South German: topographic name from Old High German fenni, Middle Low German and Old Frisian fenne ‘bog’. Compare Fehn .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 馮, see Feng 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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