When Vaughn Larry Peoples was born on 12 September 1896, in Clearfield, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Marion Peoples, was 36 and his mother, Rosa Bowman, was 30. He married Letha M Whitacre on 3 March 1954, in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States. He lived in McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Laurens, South Carolina, United States in 1965. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 22 December 1965, in Laurens, Georgia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Andersonville Prison, Macon, Georgia, United States.
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A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
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.
Irish (Donegal): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duibhne ‘descendant of Dubhne’, see Deeney . Peoples is a pseudo-translation based on the perceived resemblance of the Irish name to Gaelic daoine ‘people’.
English: variant of People , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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