When Ethel Estella Farrar was born on 28 October 1892, in Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Walter Daniel Farrar, was 25 and her mother, Annie Laurie Heath, was 28. She married Arthur Gilman Eastman on 1 June 1917, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1920 and Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. She died in June 1990, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 97.
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On January 27, 1895, College Hall catches on fire and is fully consumed within one hour. During the fire, many students and faculty work together to save many of the items in the building. Some of these are library books. They save the books by piling them onto the rugs and dragging them out of the burning building. College Hall is then later rebuilt and renamed Davis Hall after Governor John W. Davis.
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.
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 (northern): occupational name for a blacksmith or worker in iron. From Middle English fer(r)o(u)r, fer(r)er, fa(r)ro(u)r ‘ironworker, blacksmith’ (Old French ferreor, from medieval Latin ferrator, an agent derivative of ferrare ‘to shoe horses’, from ferrum ‘iron’, in medieval Latin ‘horseshoe’). Compare Ferrier and Farrow .
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