When Martin John Durant was born on 16 December 1894, in Prairie Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, John Thomas Durant, was 41 and his mother, Caroline Elizabeth Wilson, was 37. He married Florence Pearl Lovingfoss on 11 March 1918, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Sonora Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Parker Township, Morrison, Minnesota, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 16 March 1963, in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Middle Creek, Hancock, 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 (of Norman origin) and French: variant of Durand .
English: variant of Darwent, a habitational name from Derwent in Derbyshire (now submerged by the Ladybower Reservoir) or Darwen in Lancashire, both named from rivers called Derwent, or, less frequently, from similarly named rivers in Cumbria, Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘river where oak-trees grow abundantly’.
Altered form of French Doiron .
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