When Johanna Dykstra was born on 11 August 1882, in Wyoming, Kent, Michigan, United States, her father, Freerk Frederick Dijkstra, was 25 and her mother, Gaarke Moltmaker, was 25. She lived in Wyoming Township, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1900. She died on 12 December 1907, in Wyoming, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Kentwood, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
"The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit ""water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."" H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, ""TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII""."
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.
West Frisian and Dutch: variant, mostly archaic or Americanized, of Dijkstra, composed of Dutch dijk ‘dike’ + the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a dike, and a habitational name for someone from a place called after its dike, such as Surhuizumerdijk and Haskerdijken. The surname Dykstra is also found in Germany, including East Frisia.
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