When Martha Edwina Cullum was born on 27 December 1867, in Missouri, United States, her father, Hodges Claborne Cullum, was 23 and her mother, Matilda C Beard, was 23. She married Samuel Noah Crooks on 1 March 1890, in Putnam, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Union Township, Putnam, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Unionville, Putnam, Missouri, United States in 1950. She died on 28 October 1961, in Putnam, Missouri, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Unionville Cemetery, Unionville, Putnam, Missouri, United States.
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Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
As one of the Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment addresses the rights and protections that all citizens of the United States have. The amendment also limits actions of state and local officials in all states.
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.
English: habitational name, in part from places in Oxfordshire and Berkshire called Culham, or from Colham Green in Middlesex. The first is named with an Old English personal name Cūla + hamm ‘river meadow’; the Berkshire name is from Old English cyln ‘kiln’ + Old English hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’; and the Middlesex name is from the Old English personal name Cola + hamm ‘river meadow’.
Scottish: possibly a shortened form of McCollum .
English: variant of Colomb 2.
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