January 16, 1891 – Death of Albert M. Lea at Corsicana, Texas – the man who first applied the name ‘Iowa’ to the Wisconsin Territory land that laid west of the Mississippi River.
A Day-by-Day Calendar of Historical Events In Iowa, William J. Petersen, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1946, p 11
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