When Orlin Bird Squires was born on 19 June 1873, in Carlisle, Lorain, Ohio, United States, his father, Theodore Jeremiah Squires, was 38 and his mother, Percis Amelia Farr, was 32. He married Hattie Murray Mason on 3 December 1894, in Lorain, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lorain, Ohio, United States in 1873 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 August 1950, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, 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.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
English: variant of Squire , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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