When Alice Margaret Wainwright was born in June 1863, in Morgan, Ohio, United States, her father, Stephen Wainwright, was 22 and her mother, Lucenna Roach, was 18. She married Daniel Harrison Shiflett on 12 December 1882, in Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Prairie Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States for about 30 years. She died in 1936, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 73.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
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.
English (Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire): occupational name for a maker of carts or wagons, from Middle English wain-wright ‘wagon-builder, cart-maker’ (Old English wægn-wyrhta).
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