Brief Life History of Lena
When Lena Faires was born on 18 October 1871, in Iowa, United States, her father, Joel Faires, was 33 and her mother, Ursula Murphy, was 31. She married Arthur Albert Deal on 18 October 1905. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Iowa Township, Cedar, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Bloomfield Township, Polk, Iowa, United States for about 15 years. She died on 21 September 1944, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States.
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- Lena F Deal in household of Arthur Deal, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Lena Faires, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Lena Faires Deal, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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.
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English: variant of Fair .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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