Brief Life History of Carrie J
When Carrie J Burge was born on 6 September 1893, in Crawford, Kansas, United States, her father, Andrew Humphrees Burge, was 25 and her mother, Ada Elizabeth Davis, was 18. She died on 14 March 1898, in her hometown, at the age of 4.
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Bridge , Old English brycg, with metathesis of u and r, as exemplified in several placenames of this origin in various parts of southern England.
Swiss German and German (Bürge): from Middle High German bürge ‘bailsman, guarantor’. Compare Buerge .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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