When Ona Laverne Burchfield was born on 16 July 1895, in Indiana, United States, her father, William Henry Burchfield, was 32 and her mother, Mary Alice Hollis, was 27. She married Clarence Wesley Hawk on 12 June 1916, in Guthrie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Lincoln Township, Dallas, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. She died in May 1981, at the age of 85, and was buried in West Des Moines, Polk, 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 town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
English (Sussex): habitational name from Birchfield (Staffordshire), Birchfields (Lancashire), or any of various minor places called Birchfield, from Old English birce ‘birch’ + feld ‘open country’. No medieval evidence for the name has been found.
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