Brief Life History of Hendrik Jurriaan
When Hendrik Jurriaan Damman was born on 21 June 1865, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Antoni Willem Hermanus Damman, was 24 and his mother, Cecilia Geertruida Welling, was 27. He married Margaretha Moolhuizen on 28 May 1896, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 13 January 1941, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Hendrik Jurriaan Damman, "Netherlands Births and Baptisms, 1564-1910"
- Hendrik Jurriaan Damman, "Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Civil Registration, 1811-1950"
- Hendrik Jurriaan Damman in entry for Cecilia Geertruida Damman, "Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Civil Registration, 1811-1950"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
1885 · The World's First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Name Meaning
Dutch: topographic or habitational name for a man who lived by a dam or at a place or farm named Ten Dam, a variant of Dam ‘dam, wall, dike’ + man ‘man’.
Americanized form of North German Dammann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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