When Pearl Rolofson was born on 8 January 1890, in Atchison, Missouri, United States, her father, George Lawrence Rolofson, was 23 and her mother, Jennie Medbury Knepper, was 18. She married Robert Newton Johnston on 5 July 1925, in Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States in 1935 and Election District 10, Park, Wyoming, United States in 1940. She died on 15 July 1952, in Powell, Park, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Powell, Park, Wyoming, United States.
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The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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 first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Probably an altered form of English Rollison .
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