When Alice Ellen Culver was born on 23 January 1894, in New York, United States, her father, Philip S. Culver, was 29 and her mother, Minnie Hyde, was 34. She married Oscar Russell Lacy Jr on 14 February 1912, in Yates, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Penn Yan, Yates, New York, United States in 1910 and Milo, Yates, New York, United States for about 15 years. She died in January 1975, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Penn Yan, Yates, New York, 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.
English (Kent): from Middle English culver, colver ‘dove’ (Old English culfre, Late Latin columbula, a diminutive of columba), which Reaney suggests was used as a term of endearment. It may therefore have been applied as nickname for a lovelorn youth or perhaps for someone who used the expression indiscriminately. Otherwise, it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or a nickname for someone bearing some fancied resemblance to a dove, such as mildness of temper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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