When Hazel Gertrude Woolley was born on 10 July 1894, in Denver, Jefferson Township, Miami, Indiana, United States, her father, Edgar Amos Woolley, was 26 and her mother, Rose Ella Shoemaker, was 28. She married John Wesley Bookwalter on 20 September 1916, in Peru, Peru Township, Miami, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Allen Township, Miami, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Macy, Allen Township, Miami, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 September 1980, in Warren, Salamonie Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Plainview Cemetery, Macy, Allen Township, Miami, Indiana, 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 town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wulf ‘wolf’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’, such as Woolley (Huntingdonshire, Yorkshire), Woolley in Bovey Tracy (Devon), and Woolley in Bradford on Avon (Wiltshire).
Irish (Cavan): in Ireland, according to Woulfe, when this is not the English name, it has been adopted for Woulfe .
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