When Mary Lavinia Bentley was born on 8 June 1849, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Richard Bentley, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Price, was 27. She married Edwin Gordon Woolley on 4 October 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1852 and lived in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 23 July 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
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Possible Related NamesMy mother, Mary Lavinia Bentley Woolley, was born at Kanesville Pottawatomie County, Iowa, 8 June, 1849, the second child of Richard and Elizabeth Price Bentley. Her parents had been driven from Nauv …
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