When Maude Standing was born in 1874, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Dr. William Standing, was 28 and her mother, Mary Jane Clayton, was 26. She married Gustavus George Adam Herzog on 21 August 1895, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. She lived in St. Clair, Illinois, United States in 1920 and East Saint Louis, St. Clair, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 29 May 1961, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in East Saint Louis Township, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
English: variant of Standen .
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