When Clara Bell Blodgett was born on 8 July 1893, in Nebraska, United States, her father, Dr Hyrum LeFlesh Blodgett, was 33 and her mother, Dora Ann Ruch, was 28. She married Earl Wellington Shaw on 26 July 1913, in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States in 1900 and United States in 1949. She died on 22 February 1977, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, 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.
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.
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.
English: unexplained. This surname is no longer found in Britain.
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