When John Henry Berry was born on 3 November 1894, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Alexander Reed Berry, was 42 and his mother, Mary Louisa Moore, was 33. He lived in Green District, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Center District, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1910. He died on 22 January 1970, in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Kirkland Cemetery, Wetzel, West Virginia, 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.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara ‘descendant of Béara’, a personal name of unexplained etymology; or, in some cases, perhaps an Anglicized form of Irish and Manx Ó Beargha. Compare Barry 1.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Barrie .
English: habitational name from any of several places called in Devon named with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified manor house, stronghold’, such as Berry Pomeroy and Berrynarbor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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