When Willis Dessie Masterson was born on 4 June 1890, in Indian Territory, United States, his father, Sylvester Preston Masterson, was 47 and his mother, Nancy Jane Stephens, was 32. He married Lillie Mae Higgins on 5 January 1908, in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Vann Township, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States in 1940 and Ceres, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1950. He died on 24 May 1954, in Akins, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Akins, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States.
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Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
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English: from Middle English maister ‘master’ + -son. Compare Master .
Irish: in Ireland, this is usually the English name in 1 above. However, it was also adopted for Irish Mac an Mháighistir ‘son of the master’, also Anglicized as McMaster .
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