When Alice Elizabeth Thurston was born on 30 May 1893, in Dallas, Polk, Oregon, United States, her father, Edward Alfred Thurston, was 39 and her mother, Margaret Long, was 30. She married Alfred Helmar Marious Skei on 12 August 1914. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States for about 10 years and Portland City Election Precinct 328, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 15 February 1987, in Wilsonville, Clackamas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 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.
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
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 (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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