Brief Life History of Martha Dike
When Martha Dike Mayne was born on 18 November 1880, in Lime Creek Township, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States, her father, John Jay Mayne, was 32 and her mother, Loraine Adelia Dike, was 29. She married Arthur Alfred White on 7 June 1915, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920 and Monrovia Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 17 November 1965, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84.
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- Mattie Mayne in household of John J Mayne, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Martha Mayne, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Martha Mayne, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
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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.
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.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Main .
English: habitational name from Broadmayne (Dorset). The placename derives from Proto-Welsh main ‘rock, stone’.
Irish (Tyrone): mainly of Norman origin (see Main 2–5) but in Fermanagh used sometimes to represent McManus .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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