Brief Life History of Harriet Emma
When Harriet Emma Packard was born on 23 October 1878, in Vernon Township, Humboldt, Iowa, United States, her father, Frank Dyer Packard, was 29 and her mother, Grace Hill, was 21. She married Christopher R Coulter on 20 November 1901. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Compton Township, Otter Tail, Minnesota, United States in 1880 and Wadena, Wadena, Minnesota, United States in 1895. She died on 25 October 1939, in Huntsville Township, Polk, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in East Grand Forks, Polk, Minnesota, United States.
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- Harriett E Packard in household of F D Packard, "Minnesota State Census, 1895"
- Harriet Coulter, Mrs, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
- Harriett Packard Coulter in entry for Harry Hillary Coulter and Pearl Wilhelminia Snyder, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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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: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Harriet Emma Packard's death
My grandmother had been sickly--she wasn't feeling well when we would go to visit. When she passed away, the family called our neighbor, Alfred Leirness', because they had a telephone. We did not ha …
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