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Aspen Grove Cemetery
Aspen Grove Cemetery is a cemetery in Burlington, Iowa. In 2022, it was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. History Aspen Grove Cemetery was established in 1843. The Aspen Grove Cemetery Association was approved by the Legislature of the Iowa Territory in December 1843 and they first met on January 3, 1844. Charles Starker, the first president of the Cemetery Association, designed and laid out a large portion of the cemetery. Initially, ten acres were purchased in 1844 and an additional eight acres were purchased shortly after. In 1866, 32 more acres were purchased for the cemetery. Between 1867 and 1875, the cemetery had 2,173 interments. By 1887, the cemetery had near 9,000 interments. By 1935, the cemetery had 32,000 interments and had expanded to around 100 acres. By 1930, the cemetery started expanding to the north, laying out roads closer to Sunnyside Avenue. Notable interments * G. F. A. Atherton (1790–1882), member of the Wisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burlington, Iowa
Burlington is a city in, and the county seat of, Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. The population was 23,982 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, a decline from the 26,839 population in 2000 United States Census, 2000. Burlington is the center of a Burlington micropolitan area, micropolitan area, which includes West Burlington, Iowa, West Burlington and Middletown, Iowa, and Gulfport, Illinois. Burlington is the home of Snake Alley (Burlington, Iowa), Snake Alley, the most crooked street in the world. History Prior to European settlement, the area was neutral territory for the Sauk people, Sauk and Meskwaki peoples, who called it Shoquoquon (''Shok-ko-kon''), meaning Flint Hills. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson organized two parties of explorers to map the Louisiana Purchase. The Lewis and Clark Expedition followed the Missouri River, while Zebulon Pike, Lt. Zebulon Pike followed the Mississippi River. In 1805, Pike landed at the bluffs below Burlington and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Isham Gilbert
James Isham Gilbert (1823–1884) was a Union general during the American Civil War. He served with distinction in the Western theaters of the war as a regimental and brigade commander. Biography Early life James Gilbert was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 16, 1823. He moved to Illinois and then to Wisconsin where he worked as a lumberman, Indian trader and liveryman. He finally settled in Iowa in 1851 where he helped found the town of Lansing. Little Rock & Meridian Gilbert joined the volunteer army later than many of his contemporaries, enlisting in October 1862. Nevertheless, he was appointed colonel of the 27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment on October 3, 1862. Gilbert's regiment participated in Frederick Steele's Little Rock Expedition but was not involved in any fighting. He was posted to garrison duty in Arkansas and then transferred to Mississippi where his regiment was attached to Andrew J. Smith's division in the XVI Corps during the Meridian expedition. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Champlin Stone
Joseph Champlin Stone (July 30, 1829 – December 3, 1902) was a medical doctor and one-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district. Born in Westport, New York, Stone moved to Iowa Territory in 1844. He attended the public schools. In 1854, he graduated from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, Missouri, and returned to Iowa (now a state) to practice. During the Civil War Dr. Stone enlisted as a private in the Union Army and was made adjutant of the 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. He was promoted to captain and assistant adjutant general of volunteers in 1862, and served until the end of the war. He resumed the practice of medicine in Burlington, Iowa. In 1876, Stone was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House. He served in the Forty-fifth Congress from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1879. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1878,Iowa State Reporter (Waterl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremiah Smith, Jr
Jeremiah ( – ), also called Jeremias, was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the book that bears his name, the Books of Kings, and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple. According to the narrative of the Book of Jeremiah, the prophet emerged as a significant figure in the Kingdom of Judah in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC. Born into a priestly lineage, Jeremiah reluctantly accepted his call to prophethood, embarking on a tumultuous ministry more than five decades long. His life was marked by opposition, imprisonment, and personal struggles, according to Jeremiah 32 and 37. Central to Jeremiah's message were prophecies of impending divine judgment, forewarning of the nation's idolatry, social injustices, and moral decay. According to the Bible, he prophesied the siege of Jerusalem and Babylonian captivity as consequences for d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Iowa, second-most populous city in Iowa. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River (Iowa River), Cedar River, north of Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa City and northeast of Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines, the state's capital. Cedar Rapids is the economic hub of Eastern Iowa, located at the core of the Interstate 380 (Iowa), Interstate 380 corridor. The population of the three-county Cedar Rapids metropolitan area, Iowa, Cedar Rapids metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of Marion, Iowa, Marion and Hiawatha, Iowa, Hiawatha, was 276,520 in 2020. The Cedar Rapids metropolitan area is also part of a combined statistical area with the Iowa City metropolitan area. History Early history The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Meskwaki and Sauk people, Sauk peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Butler Remey
William Butler Remey (1842 – January 20, 1895) was an American military officer who served in the American Civil War and was the first Judge Advocate General of the Navy, serving from 1880 to 1892. Early life William Butler Remey was born in 1842, in Burlington, Iowa, to Eliza Smith (née Howland) and William Butler Remey. His father was captain of a steamboat in Burlington. He had two brothers, George C. Remey, who served in the Navy, and John T. Remey, president of the National State Bank in Burlington. Career Remey became a captain of a Burlington militia company known as the Zouave Light Guards, who organized in 1861. In 1861, Remey was appointed by Senator Grimes as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. From 1862 to 1863, he served on USS Sabine, a sailing frigate. He was promoted to first lieutenant around 1864 and served in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard from 1864 to 1865. He served on the USS North Carolina in 1865 and USS Vanderbilt from 1865 to 1867 and the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles L
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, Philosophy, philosopher, Natural history, naturalist, scientist, Ecology, ecologist, forester, Conservation biology, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book ''A Sand County Almanac'' (1949), which has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than two million copies. Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his ecocentric or holistic ethics regarding land. He emphasized biodiversity and ecology and was a founder of the science of wildlife management. Early life Rand Aldo Leopold was born in Burlington, Iowa, on January 11, 1887. His father, Carl Leopold, was a businessman who made walnut desks and was first cousin to his wife, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherd Leffler
Shepherd Leffler (April 24, 1811 – September 7, 1879) was one of the two original U.S. Representatives to represent Iowa when the state was first admitted to the Union. Elected as a Democrat in 1846, Leffler went on to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House for additional terms. Early life and education Leffler was born on his grandfather's plantation, "Sylvia's Plain," in Washington County, Pennsylvania, near Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia). He attended private schools and was graduated from Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, and from the law department of Jefferson College (now Washington & Jefferson College), in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1833. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Wheeling. In 1835 he moved to what is now Burlington, Iowa (then a part of Michigan Territory, the next year a part of Wisconsin Territory, and the next year the initial capital of Iowa Territory). He served as member of the Iowa Territ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Leffler
Isaac Leffler (November 7, 1788March 8, 1866), sometimes spelled Lefler or Loeffler, was an American lawyer and Iowa pioneer who represented Virginia's 18th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term in the 1820s. He also served in the legislatures of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as the Wisconsin and Iowa Territories. His younger brother, Shepherd Leffler, became one of Iowa's first congressmen after achieving statehood. Early life and education Born on his grandfather's plantation, "Sylvia's Plain," in Washington County, Pennsylvania, near Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), Leffler attended the public schools and was graduated from Jefferson College, (now Washington & Jefferson College), in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Virginia career After studying law, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Wheeling. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for six terms, serving in the 1817–1819 sessions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Gartner Lauman
Jacob Gartner Lauman (January 20, 1813 – February 9, 1867) was an American businessman from Iowa and a controversial General officer, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He commanded an infantry brigade in the Army of the Tennessee in several campaigns in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, Western Theater, and then led a division (military), division during the 1863 Vicksburg Campaign, where his inadequate performance in the Jackson Expedition, Siege of Jackson led to his being sent home for the rest of the war without a subsequent command. Early life and career Lauman was born in Taneytown, Maryland. He grew up in York, Pennsylvania, and was educated at the York County Academy. In 1844, he moved to Burlington, Iowa, and became a successful businessman engaged in commerce. Civil War service Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Lauman was actively engaged in recruiting volunteers to join several new military companies he was raising. He rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Flournoy Henry
John Flournoy Henry (January 17, 1793 – November 12, 1873) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Born at Scott County, Kentucky, Henry attended Georgetown Academy, Kentucky, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1817. He served at Fort Meigs in 1813 as surgeon's mate of Kentucky troops. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and the practice of medicine. He owned slaves. Henry was elected as an Adams candidate to the 19th United States Congress, Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother Robert P. Henry and served from December 11, 1826, to March 3, 1827. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1827 to the 20th United States Congress, Twentieth Congress. Professor in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1831. He moved to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1834 and to Burlington, Iowa, in 1845 and resumed the practic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
