When Lora Lydia Gossard was born on 7 March 1871, in Stokes Township, Madison, Ohio, United States, her father, Robert A Gossard, was 37 and her mother, Barbara Catherine Huffman, was 28. She married Orris Erastus Duff on 27 November 1895, in Madison, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Deer Creek Township, Madison, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 7 March 1944, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in South Solon, Madison, Ohio, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
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 (West Midlands): occupational name for a keeper of geese, from Middle English goseherde, from Old English gōs ‘goose’ + hierde ‘herdsman, keeper’. The surname in this spelling is now extinct in Britain but it survives as Gozzard, mainly recorded in Staffordshire in the 19th century.
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gozhard, composed of the elements goz (from gaut, an ethnic name meaning ‘Goth’ or ‘Geat’; see Goss ) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’.
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