When Eschol Thomas Rumsey was born on 14 March 1912, in Pope, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Ernest Rumsey Sr., was 21 and his mother, Maud Ann Trovillion, was 19. He married Anna Rudell Slankard on 18 June 1938, in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Metropolis Precinct, Massac, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Elgin Township, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 20 August 1973, in Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Bluff City Cemetery, Elgin, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Grace Wilbur Trout was elected president of the Chicago Political Equality League and started her presidency by making sure that each senate district was supporting suffrage for women. A few months later, the bill was up for voting in the state. Trout and her team went as far as to get male voters from their homes. The bill passed giving Women the right to vote for President of the Nation and all local offices not in the Illinois Constitution.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
English: habitational name from Romsey (Hampshire), from an Old English personal name Rūm (genitive Rūmes) + Old English ēg ‘island, raised ground in marshland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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