When Marion Legan Howard was born on 6 February 1894, in Persia, Harrison, Iowa, United States, his father, George Washington Howard, was 22 and his mother, Harriet Mariah Chapman, was 18. He married Emma Florence Wentworth on 13 June 1915, in Persia, Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Hood River, Hood River, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Wayside, Dawes, Nebraska, United States in 1920. He died on 6 July 1921, in Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Persia, Harrison, Iowa, 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.
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
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