When Dorothy Evelyn Ferguson was born on 23 July 1915, in Trigg, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Simpson Ferguson, was 35 and her mother, Eliza Love Holland, was 29. She married Gordon Forrest George on 7 March 1938, in Obion, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Ferguson Spring, Trigg, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 17 September 1969, in Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 54.
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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.
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fergus ‘son of Fearghus’ (see Fergus ) by substituting -son for mac-.
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