Brief Life History of Flora Elnora
When Flora Elnora Justice was born on 10 March 1882, in Mount Vernon, Posey, Indiana, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Justice, was 26 and her mother, Phebe Higdon, was 28. She married Alexander K White in 1899, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 17 May 1924, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Mrs. Flora White, "United States Census, 1910"
- Flora Elenora White, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Flora Justice, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name from Middle English justice, justis(e) ‘judicial officer; judge’, Old French justise, justice ‘uprightness; equity; vindication of right; court of justice; judge’, Latin iustitia, a derivative of iustus (see Just ).
African American: adoption of the surname in 1 above, because of its literal meaning in English ‘uprightness; equity; vindication of right’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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