When Gertrude M. Boughton was born on 17 April 1884, in Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, her father, George Martin Boughton, was 45 and her mother, Harriet B. Torrey, was 43. She married Howard Anson Pierce on 4 May 1901, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Township of Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States in 1900. She died on 14 March 1923, in Climax, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Boughton Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
"The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit ""water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."" H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, ""TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII""."
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.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.
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