When Myrtle Ella Thorp was born on 8 September 1893, in Missouri, United States, her father, Jesse H Thorp, was 28 and her mother, Emma Jane Howard, was 22. She married Thomas Templeton Aaron Mayfield on 23 December 1912, in Saline, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Blue Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Mount Shasta, Siskiyou, California, United States in 1950. She died on 27 June 1971, in Kearney, Clay, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Providence Church Graveyard, Liberty, Clay, Missouri, 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.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
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.
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): variant of Thorpe .
Scandinavian: variant of Torp .
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