When David Ferguson Keith was born on 11 March 1895, in San Francisco, California, United States, his father, David Keith, was 47 and his mother, Mary Patrick Ferguson, was 40. He married Geneva Savage on 16 December 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1948. He registered for military service in 1914. He died on 9 July 1948, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
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Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
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Possible Related NamesSalt Lake Telegram May 27, 1919 Bulk of Estate Devised to her only son According to a will dated January 11, 1919, the bulk of the estate of Mrs. Mary Ferguson Keith, who died in Salt Lake recently, i …
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