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Mount Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Henry County, Iowa, in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 8,668 in the 2010 census, a decline from 8,751 in the 2000 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Population & Housing Occupancy Status 2010 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Data from the 2010 Census )〕 It was founded in 1835 by pioneer Presley Saunders. == History == Mount Pleasant was first incorporated as a town by European Americans in 1842, and again in 1851. In 1869, Mount Pleasant was the site of a solar eclipse expedition, under the command of James Craig Watson and sponsored by ''National Almanac.'' The total solar eclipse occurred on August 7, 1869.〔:Wikisource:''Popular Science Monthly''/Volume 19/September 1881/"Sketch of James Craig Watson"〕 In the Union Block building in 1869, Arabella A. Mansfield became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a license to practice law. She had passed the bar exam with high scores and won a court case for entry to the bar. The legislature changed its statute. The third floor of the Union Block housed the Opera House or Union Hall, a gathering place for the community. It attracted national speakers on tour, including abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Anna Dickinson. James Harlan also spoke there, as he was president of Iowa Wesleyan College in the town, and later was elected several times to the United States Senate. This building had been considered one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa.〔It reopened in August of 2014 housing businesses on the first and second floors. The ballroom was restored and updated on the third floor making it a beautiful hall used for a variety of community gatherings, events, and private parties. ("2008 Most Endangered Properties" ), Preservation Iowa,〕 The Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute was built in 1861. However, in 1936, a fire did great damage to the building. The hospital had to be closed, as little of the facility survived the fire.〔()〕 On December 10, 1986, Ralph Orin Davis, a resident, walked into a city council meeting and shot Mayor Edward King and two council members. Mayor King died of his wounds after being shot point blank in the head. The 69-year-old gunman had attended a couple of previous meetings, complaining about a backed-up sewer and wanting the city to pay for damages to his house. The two council members were seriously wounded.〔("Mayor killed, 2 hurt in meeting gunfire" ), ''Kentucky New Era'', 6 December 1986〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Pleasant, Iowa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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