When Donald Lester Cook was born on 7 January 1895, in Oxford, Furnas, Nebraska, United States, his father, Thomas James Cook, was 36 and his mother, Minnie Elizabeth Bailey, was 27. He married Pearl Viola Carpenter on 23 March 1918, in Red Cloud, Webster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Selden, Sheridan, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Election District 4, Laramie, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died in March 1944, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Selden, Sheridan, Kansas, 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 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.
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.
English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Middle English cok, coke, cook, couk, cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew .
Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above), but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’, such as German and Jewish Koch , Dutch Kook , Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk , Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar , North German Kuk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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