When Inga Toline Salvesen-Thompson was born on 13 August 1870, in Eigersund, Rogaland, Norway, her father, Tonnes Salvesen Thompson, was 26 and her mother, Karen Davidsdatter, was 25. She married Nels Nelsen Harstad on 25 April 1894, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 13 June 1954, in Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
The Masonic Temple Building was a skyscraper built in Chicago and from 1895 to 1920 it was the tallest building in Chicago. The building featured a central court surrounded by shops on nine floors. On top of the shops there were meeting rooms that were also used as theaters. In 1939 the Masonic Temple was demolished, and a Walgreens drug store was erected in its place.
Respelling of the German and Scandinavian name Inge, a short form of Ingrid or any of various other names (for example Ingeborg) based on the name of the old Germanic fertility god Ing.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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