Brief Life History of Amy Susan
When Amy Susan Peck was born on 8 February 1893, in Shannondale, Franklin Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States, her father, Francis Clement Peck, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Laverna Martin, was 23. She married Chester Monroe Shaw on 4 September 1910, in Ripley, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Shelby Township, Ripley, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1930. She died on 6 May 1978, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Crawfordsville, Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States.
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- Amy Shaw, "United States Census, 1930"
- Amy Susan Peck Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"
- Amy S Peck in entry for Chester M Shaw, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Speake , with loss of initial S- (or perhaps vice versa).
English: variant of Peak .
English: perhaps occasionally a variant of Petch , itself a variant of Peach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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