When Ralph Erie Cowger was born on 6 June 1890, in Osborne, Kansas, United States, his father, David Lucine Cowger, was 42 and his mother, Hannah Elizabeth Abernathy, was 40. He married Esther Lillian Stiff on 22 November 1910, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Lincoln Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died in March 1982, in Savannah, Andrew, Missouri, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Country Club Village, Andrew, Missouri, 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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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.
Americanized form of German Gauger .
History: Bearers of the name Cowger are descended from Johan Conrad Gauger, who came to North America from Germany in 1736 and settled in Pendleton County, WV.
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