When Ernest John Church was born on 2 February 1897, in Chelsea, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, his father, John Gardner Church, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Maria Hopper, was 45. He married Jennie Kippen on 6 August 1924, in Strathclair Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada. He lived in Manitoba, Canada in 1916 and Strathclair Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada in 1924. He died on 22 November 1961, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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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.
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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: topographic name mostly found in southern and midland England, for someone who lived near a church, or possibly an occupational name for someone who worked at a church, such as a verger or sexton, from Middle English chirche ‘church’. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakōn (dōma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios ‘lord’. Compare Kirk .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirch .
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