When Lillie Ruth Boughton was born on 16 August 1890, in Neosho Falls, Woodson, Kansas, United States, her father, Charles Boughton, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ella McCullough, was 25. She married Newton Levi Smith on 1 May 1912, in Neosho Falls, Woodson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 28 Howard, Jackson, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 28 March 1989, in Iola, Allen, Kansas, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Yates Center, Woodson, 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.
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
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: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.
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