When Mary Rosetta May Foote was born on 11 November 1897, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Clarence Delbert Foote, was 28 and her mother, Eliza Elizabeth Mecham, was 25. She married Orison Hyde Townsend on 15 July 1915, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Crescent Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Crescent, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 17 March 1949, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Crescent Cemetery, Crescent, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
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