Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Poyer was born about 1875, in Iowa, United States, his father, Warren Clark Poyer, was 25 and his mother, Esther Maria Van Valkenburg, was 22.
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
Name Meaning
French: from Old French poier ‘power’, probably used as a nickname for a strong individual.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Power . The name is found mainly in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Americanized form of the Czech ethnic name Pojer ‘Bavarian’ or of its variant Pojar .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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