When Laura Ella Pratt was born on 21 May 1873, in Norwich Township, Huron, Ohio, United States, her father, Edwin Delano Pratt, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth C Slyer, was 31. She married Frank Wilbert Spencer on 18 November 1896, in Willard, Huron, Ohio, United States. She lived in Willard, Huron, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Fairfield Township, Huron, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 16 March 1965, in Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in New Haven Township, Huron, Ohio, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
English: nickname for a clever trickster, from Middle English prat(te), pret ‘cunning, wily, astute’ (a derivative of Old English præt, pret ‘trickery, deception’, which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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