Brief Life History of John Alexander
When John Alexander Campbell was born on 20 August 1865, in Centerville, Appanoose, Iowa, United States, his father, David Croghan Campbell, was 36 and his mother, Mary Agnes Shontz, was 17. He married Eva Melissa Woods on 18 August 1887, in Henderson, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Iowa, United States in 1870. He died on 20 August 1950, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Worth, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- John A Campbell in household of D C Campbell, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- John A. Campbell, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
- John A Campbell, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994"
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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 Burtis Opera House
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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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