When Harry Oscar Worley was born about August 1864, in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, Wesley J. Worley, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Adams, was 28. He married Mary A Robertson on 29 January 1893, in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States in 1910 and Brawley, Imperial, California, United States in 1920. He died on 12 July 1951, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English:
habitational name with different origins. In the West Midlands this surname is most probably derived from Great or Little Wyrley in Norton Canes (Staffordshire). The placenames derive from Old English wīr ‘bog myrtle’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. In the East Midlands, the name is possibly from Worlick in Ramsey (Huntingdonshire), the etymology of the which is uncertain. In northern England, possibly from Whirley in Over Alderley (Cheshire), which has the same etymology as the Staffordshire names. There may also be a further unlocated source of this habitational name in southern England.
possibly an irregular variant of Wortley or Warley .
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