When George Washington Burks was born on 21 July 1871, in Greene, Indiana, United States, his father, John B. Burks, was 30 and his mother, Rhoda Ann Christy, was 36. He married Lillian Carmichael on 11 April 1891, in Greene, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Clear Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 1 December 1949, in Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Carmichael Cemetery, Center Township, Greene, Indiana, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
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.
English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): habitational name from Birks in Cumberworth (Yorkshire) or from a minor place of this name in another county, named from Middle English birkes, berkes ‘the birches’. If from Staffordshire, the name may be a variant of Birch .
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