When Nancy Jane Gates was born on 29 December 1850, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Samuel Gates III, was 46 and her mother, Lydia Downer, was 40. She married Levi James Taylor on 13 November 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 26 October 1872, in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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