When Mary Fredonia Harlan was born on 9 August 1892, in Williamsburg, Franklin, Kansas, United States, her father, Lemuel Harlan, was 40 and her mother, Jeanette Johnson, was 27. She married Fred Earl Young on 23 December 1914, in Anderson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Williamsburg Township, Franklin, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Reeder Township, Anderson, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died in June 1982, in Williamsburg, Franklin, Kansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Williamsburg, Franklin, Kansas, 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: habitational name from any of several minor places called in Old English with hār ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock, tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land, estate, cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside (North Yorkshire). This surname has also been present in northern Ireland (Armagh and Antrim) since the 17th century, but is now rare in Britain.
History: Harlan County, KY was named for Major Silas Harlan (died 1782). John Marshall Harlan, born in KY in 1833, became a US Supreme Court justice.
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