When Drucilla Stoddard was born on 12 November 1893, in Milford, Beaver, Utah, United States, her father, Abel Morgan Stoddard, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Blackner, was 23. She married John Leroy Ernst on 24 March 1910, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 9 March 1916, in Milford, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Milford City Cemetery, Milford, Beaver, Utah, 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 three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English and Scottish: occupational name for someone who looked after a stud of horses, from Middle English and Older Scots stod(e), stud(e) ‘establishment where horses were bred’, ‘herd of stallions or mares’ + herd(e) ‘herdsman’.
English: variant of Stothard, an occupational name for a keeper of cattle or horses, from Middle English stot ‘steer, bullock’ or ‘horse’ + herd(e) ‘herdsman’. The name was probably confused with Stodeherd ‘keeper of stud-horses’ (see above).
History: The Stoddard family of Boston, MA, was introduced by Anthony Stoddard (1600–1686), who settled there in 1639. Solomon Stoddard (1643–1728/9) was a prominent Congregational clergyman in MA, the grandfather of Jonathan Edwards, and progenitor of many noted descendants.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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