When Laura Rosetta Gilmore was born on 11 August 1892, in Jasper, Bainbridge Township, Dubois, Indiana, United States, her father, Charles Welch Gilmore, was 36 and her mother, Mary Maria Hurley, was 31. She married Allen Gregory White on 5 November 1913, in Rensselaer, Marion Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Fair Oaks, Union Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States in 1940 and Kankakee Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States for about 1 years. She died in March 1967, at the age of 74, and was buried in DeMotte, Keener Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Scottish and Irish (Ulster and Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant (i.e. devotee) of (the Virgin) Mary’.
Irish: in Sligo, shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
English: habitational name from Gillamoor in Rydale (North Yorkshire), from Old English Gedling (‘place called after Gētla’, from the Old English personal name Gētla + the connective particle -ing) + mōr ‘moor’.
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