When Charles David Updegraff was born on 28 November 1876, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, his father, Denser Clinton Updegraff, was 28 and his mother, Zilla Ann Griner, was 22. He married Laura Elizabeth Hackenberg on 18 August 1909. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hennepin, Putnam, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 18 March 1938, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1879: Mills, Dakota Territory, United States 1879: Brown, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Brown, Dakota, United States
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.
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
Americanized form of Dutch Op de Graef or Op den Graef: topographic name for someone who lived by a channel or watercourse, from Dutch op ‘beside’ + de ‘the’ + graf (Middle Dutch grave) ‘stream, channel, watercourse’. The surname Op de(n) Graef, which was brought to the US from Germany, is no longer found in the Netherlands or Germany. Compare Updegrove , Uptegrove , and Upthegrove .
History: Two brothers, Derick and Abraham Updegraff (their surnames are recorded in various forms), were among the thirteen German families from Krefeld who in 1683 founded the first German-speaking settlement on American soil, Germantown, PA, near Philadelphia. Their forebears had emigrated to Germany from the Netherlands two generations before.
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