When Francis Glenward Brugere was born on 13 June 1891, in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States, his father, Francis Joseph Brugere, was 41 and his mother, Frances Amandaville Pigg, was 23. He married Gladys Jennie Bonar on 21 June 1917. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Ste. Genevieve, Louisiana, New France in 1900 and San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 11 May 1987, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Glendora, Los Angeles, California, 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.
San Gabriel was incorporated as a city on 24 April 1913.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Fernand, Jacques, Marcel.
French (Bruyère): from Old French bruiere ‘heather’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a place where heather grew, or a habitational name from one of the places in France (for example in Calvados) named with this word. Compare Labruyere .
Altered form (Bruyère) of French Bruguier: habitational name from (Le) Bruguier, the name of several places in the southeastern part of France, a cognate of 1 above.
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