When Harriet Deborah Selvey was born on 27 June 1872, in Townsend Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States, her father, Sanford Selvey, was 30 and her mother, Anna Rebecca McNitt, was 27. She married John Lamplough Needham on 10 April 1895, in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Green Creek, Green Creek Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States in 1935 and Green Creek Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 2 September 1947, in Green Springs Village, Sandusky, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Green Springs Cemetery, Green Creek, Sandusky, Ohio, United States.
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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.
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.
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.
English (Staffordshire and Derbyshire): variant of Silvey .
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