Brief Life History of Laura Alice
When Laura Alice Moyer was born on 17 December 1872, in Boardman, Mahoning, Ohio, United States, her father, Samuel Moyer, was 39 and her mother, Leah Simon, was 31. She married Norman Edwin Kegerreis on 25 June 1901, in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Washington Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 25 February 1945, in Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States.
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- Laura A Moyer in household of Gustave Cook, "United States Census, 1900"
- Moyer, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Laura A Moyer, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .
French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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