When Minnie Emma Chickering was born on 28 June 1897, in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Wilfred Henry Chickering, was 49 and her mother, Cora Mae Wright, was 22. She died after 1910.
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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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: unexplained. The surname seems to have died out in the British Isles.
History: The Chickering(e)s or Chickring(e)s who were in Dedham, MA, by c. 1670 were originally from Wrentham, Suffolk. However, only four Chickerings (all in Staffordshire) and one Chickring (from Devon) were recorded in the 1881 British census.
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