When Alta Mae Wight was born on 22 August 1890, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, her father, William Pleasant Wight, was 23 and her mother, Willie Frances Hooker, was 23. She married Charles Benjamin Berrier on 18 March 1910, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 daughters. She lived in Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States in 1910 and Pierce City, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1930. She died on 6 April 1931, at the age of 40, and was buried in Dry Valley Cemetery, Dry Valley, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.
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Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Scottish and English: nickname from Middle English wiht, wight ‘agile, nimble, strong, brave’ (Old Norse víg with the Old Norse neuter suffix -t, for which compare the word scant), or from the corresponding Older Scots word wicht. Possibly sometimes a nickname from Middle English wight ‘living creature; small portion or thing’, or from the corresponding Older Scots word wicht.
English: habitational name from the Isle of Wight. The island is recorded as Vectis (its Latin name) c. 150 AD . Its name derives from a British word, perhaps related to Welsh gwaith ‘turn, course’, meaning ‘place of the division’, in reference to the island's position in the Solent.
English and Scottish: variant of White .
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