Brief Life History of Charles Arthur
When Charles Arthur Dempster was born on 14 January 1894, in Fairfield Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States, his father, James Buchanan Dempster, was 37 and his mother, Sarah E Gray, was 31. He married Agnes Marie Kilby on 18 June 1918, in Roundup, Musselshell, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in School District 82 Fishtail, Stillwater, Montana, United States for about 5 years and Sweet Grass, Montana, United States in 1977. He died on 5 May 1977, in Absarokee, Stillwater, Montana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Stillwater, Montana, United States.
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- Charles A Dempster, "United States 1950 Census"
- Charles A. Dempster, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- Charles Arthur Dempster, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1895
Historical Boundaries 1895: Sweet Grass, Montana, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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