When Ruth Esther Taylor was born on 13 August 1894, in Wilmington, Wabaunsee, Kansas, United States, her father, Gilbert Russell Taylor, was 44 and her mother, Caroline Virginia Wilkinson, was 36. She married Earl Horace Kimble in 1913, in Burlingame, Shawnee, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Waterloo Township, Lyon, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Dragoon Township, Osage, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 12 June 1977, in Burlingame, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Burlingame, Osage, Kansas, 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.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
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