When Jennie Vieva Barrows was born on 11 April 1892, in Coventry, Orleans, Vermont, United States, her father, Willis E. Barrows, was 30 and her mother, Jennie Mary Sumner, was 33. She married Forest Dell Pratt on 16 June 1917, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Irasburg, Orleans, Vermont, United States in 1910 and Orlando, Orange, Florida, United States in 1982. She died on 24 November 1982, in Seminole, Florida, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Highland Memory Gardens, Forest City, Seminole, Florida, 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.
At 792 feet above Broadway, the Woolworth Building became the tallest building in the world and held the record for 17 years. The Woolworth Building was overshadowed by the Chrysler Building at 1,046 feet in 1930 and the Empire State Building at 1,454 feet in 1931. Retailer and mogul Frank W. Woolworth commissioned the Woolworth Building in 1910 with the intent of his namesake building to be the tallest in the world. The 13 million dollar project was financed in cash by Woolworth which allowed him freedoms in the design and construction of the ornate, gothic building. An opening ceremony was held on April 24, 1913 at which President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button from the White House and lit the historic building in New York City.
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 (Yorkshire): variant of Barrow , with excrescent -s.
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