When Gladys Willie Denton was born on 3 November 1894, in Adams, Umatilla, Oregon, United States, her father, William Jay Denton, was 36 and her mother, Alice Adell Ferguson, was 24. She married Charles Peter Kuhl in 1915. She lived in Burns, Harney, Oregon, United States in 1950 and Oregon, United States in 1976. She died on 20 February 1992, in Deschutes, Oregon, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Canyon City Cemetery, Canyon City, Grant, Oregon, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1916: Deschutes, Oregon, United States
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
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