When Yetiva Ruth Morgan was born on 21 September 1893, in Benton, Butler, Kansas, United States, her father, George Lee Morgan, was 24 and her mother, Hettie A. Wallace, was 21. She married Robert Wayne Newcom on 29 May 1915, in Kechi, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Reno, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Albion Township, Reno, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 6 May 1987, in Pretty Prairie, Reno, Kansas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Lone Star Cemetery, Pretty Prairie, Reno, Kansas, 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.
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.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Welsh (especially Glamorgan): from the medieval Welsh personal name Morgan, Morgant (Old Welsh Morcant, of uncertain etymology).
Irish: importation of the Welsh surname (see 1 above), to which has been assimilated more than one Gaelic surname, notably Ó Muireagáin (see Merrigan ).
Scottish: probably from a Gaelic personal name cognate with Welsh Morcant.
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