When Mary Margaret Rockwell was born on 3 September 1872, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Caleb Antrim Rockwell, was 41 and her mother, Margaret Baer, was 40. She married Eli Franklin Walls on 20 March 1902, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 5 May 1953, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, 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.
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
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 (Buckinghamshire): habitational name either from Rockwell End in Hambleden (Buckinghamshire), derived from Old English hrōc ‘rook’ + holt ‘wood, thicket’, or from one or more unidentified places in southwestern England apparently named Rockwell. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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