When Hazel Dell Ford was born on 21 December 1894, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, William Elsworth Ford, was 29 and her mother, Lenora Birchell, was 26. She married Viley W. Wilkins on 27 December 1913, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Stephenson, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 26 September 1965, in Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Rock Island Memorial Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, 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.
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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