Brief Life History of Willem
When Willem Sieders was born on 1 April 1877, in Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands, his father, Harm Sieders, was 28 and his mother, Geesje Hagen, was 25. He lived in Berlin Township, Douglas, South Dakota, United States in 1900. He died on 21 October 1930, in Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa, United States.
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- Willem Sieders im Haushalt von Herman Sieders, „Iowa State Census, 1885“
- William Sieclers, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
- William Sieclers, „Todesfälle und Bestattungen in Iowa, 1850-1990“
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English (Kent): variant, with post-medieval excrescent -s, of Syder, perhaps a nickname for someone who made, sold, or drank cider (from Middle English sider(e) ‘cider’), or perhaps arising from an unrecorded Old French form of the ancient Germanic personal name Sidehar, itself from sidu ‘custom, modesty’ + hari, heri ‘army’. Compare Cedars .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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