When Martha Elizabeth Scott was born on 26 April 1874, in Illinois, United States, her father, William Francis Scott, was 34 and her mother, Martha Elizabeth Dowling, was 30. She married Philip Stewart Lanham Jr on 3 September 1892, in Clayton, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Kern, Kern, California, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 9 December 1949, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
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