When Ida Jane Roe was born on 15 April 1872, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, her father, Benjamin Hulet Roe, was 26 and her mother, Phoebe Anne Coggswell, was 27. She married John Kempton on 24 January 1894, in Kings, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 26 July 1950, in Sunderland, Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 78.
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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.
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English: nickname from Middle English ro(o) ‘roe deer’ (Old English rā). This is the midland and southern form, also found in South Yorkshire and Lancashire. In much of northern England, however, rā remained unrounded and survives as Ray 3.
English: post-medieval variant of Wroe (see Wray ). Wroe may also have been used as a spelling of Roe .
English: post-medieval variant of Row (or vice versa); see Rowe .
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