When Vernie Lee Stevens was born on 12 June 1896, in Denison, Jackson, Kansas, United States, his father, Howard Stevens, was 29 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Adams, was 23. He married Margurite Elizabeth Schenck on 11 October 1927, in Denison, Jackson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Kansas, United States in 1915 and Centerville Township, Faulk, South Dakota, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1921. He died on 21 February 1972, at the age of 75, and was buried in Lemay, St. Louis, Missouri, 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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
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