When Fred James Vandemark was born on 12 January 1892, in Vaughnsville, Sugar Creek Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States, his father, Charles E. Vandemark, was 25 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth "Pollie" Fruchey, was 23. He married Lena Ruth Sawyer on 19 June 1913, in Henderson, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 1, Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 23 January 1980, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery East, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States.
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The Chicago World's Fair was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to construct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the inventions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
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.
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.
Dutch (Van de Mark): variant of Vandermark .
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