When Margaret Catherine Shaw was born on 20 September 1893, in Parma, Canyon, Idaho, United States, her father, Benjamin J. Shaw, was 27 and her mother, Catherine Rebecca Bacus, was 20. She married Amos George Shaw in 1912, in Tamarack, Adams, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Council, Washington, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Tamarack, Adams, Idaho, United States in 1920. She died on 10 July 1965, in Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States, at the age of 71.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1911: Adams, Idaho, United States
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
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