When Edna Emma Golden was born on 17 July 1890, in Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, United States, her father, Victor Laurence Golden, was 30 and her mother, Mary Frances Britton, was 27. She married Walter Franklin Griffiths on 3 January 1912, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Niota, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1950. She died on 8 May 1965, at the age of 74.
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The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
English: from Middle English golden ‘made of gold; golden in color’ (from Old English gylden), generally a nickname for someone with golden-blond hair.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Ualghairg (see McGoldrick ).
Irish: adopted for Ó Gabhláin, ‘descendant of Gabhlán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of gabhal ‘fork’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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