When Ernest C McCroskey was born on 22 March 1902, in Washington, Virginia, United States, his father, Martin Luther McCroskey, was 30 and his mother, Julia Cornelia Hoss, was 27. He married Nellie Katherine Parks on 22 October 1922, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Kinderhook District, Washington, Virginia, United States for about 30 years. He died in November 1990, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Forest Hills Memory Gardens, Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, United States.
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Scottish: metathesized Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cosgraich ‘son of Coscrach’, a byname meaning ‘victorious’, ‘triumphant’ from coscur ‘victory, triumph’. Compare Irish Cosgrove .
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