When Harry George Kebschull was born on 9 February 1897, in Illinois, United States, his father, August H Kebschull, was 25 and his mother, Mary Neef, was 21. He lived in Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 13 April 1938, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Concordia Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. It reverses the direction of the Chicago River, which now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it. It is one of two canals that helps navigation to ships traveling between the Great Lakes Waterway and the Mississippi River system.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Pet form of Henry . This was the usual English form of Henry in the Middle Ages and later. It was used by Shakespeare , for example, as the familiar name of the mature King Henry V ( compare Hal ). Since the publication of the first of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter titles (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) in 1997 , Harry has become extremely popular as an independent given name.
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