When Bert Leroy Mitchell was born on 10 November 1892, in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, John William Mitchell, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Ann Connary, was 21. He married Maria Hayes Smith on 9 May 1921. He lived in United States in 1949 and Copperton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 16 September 1973, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, 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 three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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