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After the war, he worked as a lawyer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was active in the Grand Army of the Republic, and was elected its national judge advocate general in 1905 and the department commander of Iowa in 1906. [4] [5] He was also a companion of the Iowa Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
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Architectural Career of William L. Perkins in Iowa:1917-1957 MPS: ... September 06, 2006: The Carl L. Caviness Post 102, American Legion was built in 1925.
The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Meskwaki and Sauk peoples at the time of European American settlement.. The first settler on the site of the future city was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin (which he called a tavern) in 1837 or 1838 next to the Cedar River (then known as the Red Cedar) at what is now the corner of First Avenue and First Street Northeast.
Toddville is an unincorporated community in western Linn County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads just off I-380, northwest of the city of Cedar Rapids, the county seat of Linn County. [2] Its elevation is 787 feet (240 m). [1]
The first lodge of the C.S.P.S. in Cedar Rapids was founded in 1879 and there were three by 1882. The building is a local adaptation of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. [2] The building was damaged in the 2008 flooding of Cedar Rapids, [4] but underwent a major renovation in 2011 that preserved its historic character.
Miner was born John Odgers Miner in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1910. [1] He died on April 21, 1999. ... the Legion of Merit, ... the American Defense Service Medal with ...
The original Veterans Memorial Stadium was built in 1949 for the Cedar Rapids Rockets of the Central Association. It later became home to the Cedar Rapids Indians (1950–1952), the Cedar Rapids Raiders (1953–1957), and the Cedar Rapids Braves (1958–1961) of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League. From 1962 until its demolition, Cedar Rapids ...