When M. William Goddard was born on 28 February 1891, in Elberton, Whitman, Washington, United States, his father, Franklin Pierce Goddard, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Ellen McGuire, was 29. He married Jessie Hartley on 17 March 1915, in Power, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Landing, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 30 October 1917, in Elgin, Union, Oregon, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Steptoe, Whitman, Washington, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1895: Oneida, Idaho, United States
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.
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English (of Norman origin): from Godhard, a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’. The name was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Saint Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of Hildesheim who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy that bears his name. This surname is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
English: perhaps occasionally a variant of the occupational name Gothard . The two surnames may have been much confused.
French: variant of Godard , a cognate of 1 above.
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