When Olive Peterson was born in June 1895, in Pemberton, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, her father, William F. Peterson, was 29 and her mother, Viola M. Alloway, was 30. She married Daniel Albert Ireland on 4 May 1914, in Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States for about 5 years and Pleasantville, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States for about 5 years. She died on 4 January 1966, in Camden, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 70.
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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 Public Service Corporation (PSC) was formed on May 6, 1903. The company began as a merger of a power company with four different trolley companies. PSC would ultimately combine with over 400 other companies.
"During a deadly heat wave, thousands of residents were at the seaside resorts of Jersey Shore. Between July 1 and July 2 of 1916, five different people were attacked by sharks, and four of them ultimately died. Scientific knowledge about sharks was limited at this time, so these tragic incidents started a wave of ""shark panic"" that was spread by telephone calls, letters, newspapers, and other media."
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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