When Ollie Redden was born in 1887, in Missouri, United States, his father, Henry Herman Clay Redden, was 32 and his mother, Sardinia Catherine Crider, was 23.
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This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
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.
Scottish: habitational name from Redden in Sprouston (Roxburghshire). Early-medieval spellings like Reuenden suggest that the placename is from Old English hræfna denu ‘ravens' valley’.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a patch of cleared woodland, from Middle English reden(e) (Old English ryden) ‘clearing’.
Irish: variant of Redding .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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