When Mary Ida Waters was born on 9 June 1895, in Hyde Park, Lamoille, Vermont, United States, her father, Wadsworth Fulton Waters, was 41 and her mother, Ella Calista Crowell, was 35. She married Harvey Gilbert Hemenway on 22 August 1921, in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Windsor, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1935 and Windsor Center, Windsor, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1940. She died on 5 December 1988, in Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, 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.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
English and Scottish: variant of Water 1 and 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin , Hiskey ).
History: James Waters came from London, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630. Lawrence Waters came to Charlestown, MA, from Lancaster, England, in 1675.
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