Brief Life History of Carolina Lena
When Carolina Lena Jahn was born on 8 August 1879, in Grafton, Worth, Iowa, United States, her father, Erhardt Jahn, was 41 and her mother, Margarethe Thoma Jahn, was 20. She married Charles Skinner Edwards on 1 July 1902, in Austin, Mower, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 3 March 1928, in Austin, Mower, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Austin, Mower, Minnesota, United States.
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- Lena Edwards in household of Charles S Edwards, "United States Census, 1920"
- Lana Hulsizer, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Lena L Edwards, "Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001"
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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.
1893 · The Minnesota State Flag
The Flag of Minnesota was adopted on August 2 and consists of scenes from the seal of Minnesota. The flag has been modified over the years to be easier to manufacture.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Gerhard, Kurt, Gerlinde, Hans, Helmut, Horst, Othmar, Bernd, Bernhard, Bodo, Dietrich.
German (also Jähn): from a shortened form of the personal name Johann(es) (see John ).
Germanized form of Sorbian and Polish Jan , Czech and Slovak Ján ‘John’. The Sorbian surname is also found in the Germanized form Jähn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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