Brief Life History of Samuel Rader
When Samuel Rader Dryden was born on 1 July 1855, in Mount Leigh, Adams, Ohio, United States, his father, Samuel Milton Dryden, was 41 and his mother, Rachel Rader, was 27. He married Elisabeth Ann Bradley on 17 December 1879, in Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Black Hawk Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Cedar Falls Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 5 July 1941, in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States.
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- Samuel R Dryden in household of Samuel M Dryden, "United States Census, 1870"
- Iowa, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1999
- Samuel Dryden, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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World Events (8)
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Northumberland and Durham) and Scottish: habitational name from either from Dryden in Roxburghshire or Dryden near Roslin in Midlothian, perhaps named from Old English dr̄ge ‘dry’ + denu ‘valley’. The poet John Dryden (1631–1700) was born in Northamptonshire, after his ancestors had migrated there from Cumbria in the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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