When Myrtle Leetta Ruttur was born on 2 December 1894, in Howard Township, Wayne, Iowa, United States, her father, John Albert Rutter, was 22 and her mother, Anna Victoria Livick, was 20. She married Emory A. King on 31 August 1915, in Corydon, Wayne, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Allerton, Wayne, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Corydon Township, Wayne, Iowa, United States in 1950. She died on 1 March 1968, in Corydon, Wayne, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Corydon Cemetery, Corydon, Wayne, Iowa, 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.
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
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: occupational name from Old French roteor, roteeur, routeeur ‘player on the rote’, a musical instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. The regular modern development of the name would have been to Roter (rhyming with boater), and to Router or Rowter (rhyming with doubter). These variants survive in small numbers, but the principal modern form is Rutter, found in fairly large numbers across England, especially in the northeast and in the West Midlands. The shortened vowel in Rutter may have been influenced by rotte, rutte, Middle English variants of Old French rote. Compare Root 2.
English: nickname from Middle English roter, rotour ‘robber, plunderer’, also ‘scoundrel, lecher’, a borrowing of Old French rotier, Anglo-Norman French routier ‘soldier of fortune; robber, highwayman, ruffian’, though this is a less likely source of the modern surname.
Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch rut(t)er ‘freebooter, footpad’, cognate with 2 above.
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