Brief Life History of Charles Carl
When Charles Carl Brockman was born on 14 October 1869, in Afton, Union, Iowa, United States, his father, Franz William Brockman, was 35 and his mother, Christiana Barnhart, was 29. He married Anne Rankin on 10 October 1892, in King, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Union City, Union, Iowa, United States for about 5 years and Seattle Election Precinct, King, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 13 March 1954, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 84.
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- Chas Brockman, "United States Census, 1940"
- Chas. Brockman, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Charles Brockman, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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 (Kent): variant of Brookman , a topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream (see Brook 1).
Americanized form of Jewish (from Poland) Brokman: occupational name, an agent form based on the Yiddish verb brokn ‘to crumble, shred’.
Americanized form of German Brockmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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