When George Roy Creasey was born on 24 November 1893, in Romona, Washington Township, Owen, Indiana, United States, his father, Charles Edward Creasey, was 33 and his mother, Ella Wilson, was 26. He married Goldia Ellen Leffler on 16 June 1915, in Shelby, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States for about 50 years. He died in February 1986, in Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, 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.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
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.
English (Lincolnshire, or Norman origin): habitational name from Cressy in Seine-Maritime, France (see Cressy ).
Possibly an Americanized form of any of the German names mentioned at Creasy .
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