When Martha Frances Booher was born on 15 April 1892, in Mercer, Missouri, United States, her father, Adam Tennessee Booher, was 30 and her mother, Laura Jane Nigh, was 29. She had at least 5 sons with Alfred Hoskins. She lived in Trenton, Grundy, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Altamont, Daviess, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 September 1981, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, 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.
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.
Probably an Americanized form of German Bucher .
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