When George Washington Dempster was born on 29 February 1892, in Arlington, Fayette, Iowa, United States, his father, James Buchanan Dempster, was 35 and his mother, Sarah E Gray, was 30. He married Laura Inez Washburn on 11 September 1915, in Roundup, Musselshell, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Lodomillo Township, Clayton, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Milo Township, Delaware, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 12 May 1944, in Carbon, Montana, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Red Lodge, Carbon, Montana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1895: Carbon, Montana, United States
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 first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English, Manx, and Scottish: occupational name for a judge or arbiter of minor disputes, from Middle English demester(e) ‘judge’. Although this was originally a feminine form of the masculine dēmere (see Deamer ), by the Middle English period the suffix -stre had lost its feminine force, and the term was used of both sexes. The surname is not common in England, where the term was early replaced by Anglo-Norman French juge (see Judge ), but relatively frequent in Scotland, where until 1747 every laird of a barony could have certain offenses within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice.
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