Brief Life History of Ida E.
When Ida E. Compton was born on 26 September 1873, in Genoa, Clay Township, Ottawa, Ohio, United States, her father, John Symons Compton, was 51 and her mother, Anna Palmer, was 39. She married Chester May Day on 6 June 1893, in Portage, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Nelson Township, Portage, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Garrettsville, Portage, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 1 May 1953, in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Park Cemetery, Garrettsville, Portage, Ohio, United States.
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- Ida E Day in household of Chester M Day, "United States Census, 1930"
- Tela E. Compton, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Ida E Compton, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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