When Ida Viola Todd was born on 18 January 1874, in Polk Township, Benton, Iowa, United States, her father, Jonathan Vincent Todd, was 46 and her mother, Mary Brabt, was 42. She married Charles Isaac Fisher on 25 December 1893, in Urbana, Benton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Ladysmith, Rusk, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Williams, Colusa, California, United States in 1930. She died on 5 January 1950, in Colusa, Colusa, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in College City, Colusa, California, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
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 (mainly northern) and Scottish: nickname for someone thought to resemble a fox, for example in cunning or slyness, or perhaps more obviously in having red hair, from northern Middle English tod(de) ‘fox’. Compare Todhunter , Todman . This name was brought to Ulster, Ireland, from Scotland in the 17th century.
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