Brief Life History of Claude Dale
When Claude Dale Sparks was born on 20 November 1893, in Persinger, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States, his father, Jackson Callison “John” Sparks, was 46 and his mother, Martha Fitzwater, was 26. He lived in United States in 1949 and Utica, Oneida, New York, United States in 1950. He died on 20 October 1978, in Glens Falls, Warren, New York, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Glens Falls Cemetery, Glens Falls, Warren, New York, United States.
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- Claude D Sparks, "United States 1950 Census"
- Claude D. Sparks, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- Claude Dale Sparks, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
English:
variant of Spark , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
possibly a nickname from the plural form of Middle English spark ‘fiery particle’, perhaps given to a blacksmith.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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