When Joseph Anton Koch was born on 27 March 1893, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, his father, Philip Koch, was 38 and his mother, Emma Christine Borke, was 27. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Phyllis G Wheale. He lived in Aliquippa, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Charleston, Black River Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1921. He died on 16 November 1948, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain, Lorain, 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.
The Village of Lorain became a city in 1896.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Heinz, Gerhard, Wolfgang, Ernst, Florian.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German koch, German Koch ‘cook’. The name in this sense is also established in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.
Czech and Slovak: from Koch, a pet form of Kochan or of any other personal name beginning with Ko-.
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