When Ezekial Billington was born on 23 August 1893, in Adair, Missouri, United States, his father, Thomas Porter Billington, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Ellen Wilson, was 36. He married Ella Ethel Knisley on 23 August 1916, in Marshall, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Morrow Township, Adair, Missouri, United States for about 30 years and Adair, Adair, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 7 April 1986, in Ozark, Franklin, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Morelock Cemetery, Morrow Township, Adair, 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.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
History: John Billington (1580–1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him ‘the profanest’ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.
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