When Charles Forrest Mitchell was born on 12 July 1891, in Delano, Kern, California, United States, his father, Nazareth R Mitchell, was 29 and his mother, Mary Belle Dorsey, was 19. He married Violet Juanita Sheldon on 2 February 1925, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Kern, California, United States in 1900 and South Fork Township, Humboldt, California, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 21 February 1932, in Mendocino, California, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Mount Shasta, Siskiyou, California, 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.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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