When Isaac Adkins was born on 15 April 1890, in Greasy Creek, Pike, Kentucky, United States, his father, Winright Adkins, was 65 and his mother, Elizabeth Harris, was 30. He married Elizabeth Adkins in 1910, in Pike, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Magisterial District 3, Pike, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 23 December 1947, in Pikeville, Pike, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Shelbiana, Pike, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
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.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English: from the Middle English personal name Adkin (a pet form of Adam formed with the suffix -kin) + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name was particularly common in the English Midlands. Compare Atkins .
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