When Phoebe Jane Teasdale was born on 18 April 1860, in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, her father, Jonathon A M Teasdale, was 39 and her mother, Agnes Maughan, was 27. She married Francis Marion Bennett on 24 April 1881, in Franklin Township, Dent, Missouri, United States. She lived in Meramec Township, Franklin, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Central Township, Franklin, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 4 September 1915, in Franklin, Missouri, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Anaconda Cemetery, Saint Clair, Franklin, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (northern): habitational name from Teesdale, the valley of the River Tees (Durham and Yorkshire), named with the river name Tees (of uncertain origin) + Old English dæl ‘valley’ or Old Norse dalr ‘valley’. Compare Surtees .
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