Brief Life History of Jenna Maude "Jennie"
When Jenna Maude "Jennie" Randolph was born on 21 May 1864, in Iowa, Calcasieu, Louisiana, United States, her father, Almaron Fitz Randolph, was 35 and her mother, Jane Hannah McClay Hay, was 33. She married Charles Eaton Harper on 30 March 1887, in Iowa, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Ontario, San Bernardino, California, United States for about 10 years and Ontario Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1940. She died on 27 July 1943, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ontario, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Jennie Harper, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jennie M. Randolph, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Jenna Maude Harper, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867 · The Burtis Opera House
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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English and German: from Randolf, an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand ‘rim (of a shield), shield’ + wolf ‘wolf’. This was introduced into England by the Normans in Old French forms of two different ancient Germanic personal names which became confused with each other: Randulf (from rand ‘(shield-)edge’ + wulf ‘wolf’) and Rannulf (from hraf(a)n ‘raven’ + wulf ‘wolf’).
History: An American family bearing this surname are descended from William Randolph (c. 1651–1711), a planter and merchant, a member of a family that originally came from Sussex, England. William Randolph emigrated from Warwickshire to VA c. 1673. He was a forebear of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. Randolph had seven sons, each of whom inherited an estate, the name of which was sometimes added to their own, such as Sir John Randolph of Tazewell. His great-grandsons included Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), first attorney general of the US and one of the framers of the US Constitution, and the diplomat and statesman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), who served as US minister to Russia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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