Brief Life History of Alta Irene
When Alta Irene Rowe was born on 14 November 1892, in Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States, her father, Augustus Aaron Rowe, was 25 and her mother, Eva May Fry, was 25. She married Arthur Hastings Greer on 20 December 1914, in Marvel, La Plata, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Florence, Fremont, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Kline, La Plata, Colorado, United States in 1910. She died on 23 June 1980, in Siskiyou, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Fairfield, Solano, California, United States.
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- Irene Rowe in household of Gus Rowe, "United States Census, 1900"
- Alta Irene Rowe, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- Irene Rowe Greer, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1904
Historical Boundaries: 1904: La Plata, Colorado, United States
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English rowe (Old English rāw) ‘row’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses in a street, or habitational, for someone who lived in a place so named. Compare Rawe and Rew .
English (of Norman origin): variant of Rolfe , Ralph , or Rough . Compare Rowson .
East German: habitational name from any of the places called Rowe, Rowa, Rowe(n). Compare Rowen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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