Brief Life History of Clarence
When Clarence Albertson was born on 22 June 1880, in Langworthy, Jones, Iowa, United States, his father, Daniel Watson Albertson, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Goarcke, was 19.
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Albertsson: patronymic from the personal name Albert .
Americanized form of North German, Norwegian, and Danish Albertsen , a cognate of 1 above.
English: patronymic, perhaps from the Middle English personal name Albert , but the distribution (Durham, London) suggests continental origin involving cognate elements (compare 1 above). Compare also Alberson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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