When Otto John Haag was born on 30 January 1878, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Gottlieb Haag, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Jaeger, was 36. He married Elizabeth Ann Porath on 6 March 1907, in Varina, Pocahontas, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Newell, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States for about 20 years and Newell Township, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 28 July 1948, in Varina, Pocahontas, Iowa, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Varina Cemetery, Newell Township, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States.
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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.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
The Loop was born in political scandal that combined the three elevated railways around Chicago and combined them into one. The scandal was to raise the fares for commuters so state legislators could receive more money while in office.
German and Dutch: topographic name from Middle High German hac ‘enclosure, hedge’, Middle Dutch haghe, or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word.
South German, Swiss German, and possibly also Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of any of various compound names beginning with hagan ‘enclosure, protected place, scrub’. See Hagen 2.
Swedish: probably an ornamental adoption of the German name (see above).
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