When John Frederick Evans was born on 25 August 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, John Edward Evans, was 23 and his mother, Mary Ann Andrew, was 23. He married Jane Elizabeth Pickering on 12 November 1908, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and World in 1940. He died on 5 March 1972, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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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.
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Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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Possible Related NamesJohn Frederick Evans was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, 25 August 1882, the son of John Edward Evans and Mary Andrew. He was named after his two grandfathers, John Evans and Frederick Andrew. His mot …
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