When David Gage Totten was born on 22 January 1892, in Franklinville, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, his father, Charles T. Gage, was 42 and his mother, Myra Vaughn, was 44. He married Matilda E. Swift on 20 November 1917, in Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Black Creek, New Hudson, Allegany, New York, United States in 1940 and New Hudson, Allegany, New York, United States in 1950. He died on 6 October 1974, in Cuba, Allegany, New York, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Bellville, New Hudson, Allegany, New York, 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:
variant of Tutin. This name derives either from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Tot(t)ing or Tut(t)ing, pet forms of Old English Tot(t)a or Tut(t)a; or is a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English word toting ‘lookout place’, a derivative of Old English tōtian ‘to peep out, stick out’.
habitational name from Totnes (Devon), derived from the Old English personal name Totta + Old English næss ‘promontory, headland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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