When Ralph Emerson Aiken was born on 19 December 1890, in Hardwick, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, his father, Samuel Adams Aiken, was 38 and his mother, Edna Estelle Goding, was 18. He married Mildred Edith Neill on 23 June 1914, in North Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Spring Street Cemetery, Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. He died in September 1975, in Georgetown, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Georgetown, Essex, Massachusetts, 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.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Scottish Aitken .
History: Aiken is the name of a NH family that was prominent in the 18th century; also of a Charleston family descended from William Aiken, who emigrated from Antrim in Ireland to Charleston c. 1800.
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