When Nina May Ginger was born on 27 November 1895, in Fullerton, Nance, Nebraska, United States, her father, George Clinton Ginger, was 32 and her mother, Ella Josephine Elam, was 25. She married Frank Park Shook on 4 March 1914, in Indian Creek, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Mills, Mills, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Deer Creek Township, Mills, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 28 December 1933, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Emerson Cemetery, Emerson, Mills, 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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
German: habitational name for someone from Gingen or Giengen in Württemberg.
English (southern): from Middle English gingivere, gyngure, gingere ‘ginger’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in spices, or possibly a nickname for someone with reddish hair or a fiery temperament.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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