When John Frances Burns was born on 22 December 1883, in Durham, Durham, England, United Kingdom, his father, Anthony F Burns, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Ann Carr, was 31. He immigrated to Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1886 and lived in Dunbar Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 9 December 1908, in Dunbar, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, 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.
Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis, Burnes, or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Kincardineshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and possibly Argyll.
English and Scottish: variant either of Burn , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Barnes .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne ), with excrescent -s.
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