When Alta Long Ritchey was born on 15 December 1892, in Duncansville, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Albert S Ritchey, was 26 and her mother, Minnie Mary Long, was 23. She married Earl Lynn Bowser on 8 November 1911, in Duncansville, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949. She died on 5 September 1980, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Hollidaysburg, Blair, 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.
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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.
Scottish and English (Durham): variant of Ritchie .
Perhaps also an altered form of Swiss German Rütsche, Rütschi, Ruetschi, from pet forms of the personal name Rudolf .
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