When Anna Ruth Justice was born on 16 September 1891, in Salt Creek Township, Pickaway, Ohio, United States, her father, William Allen Justice, was 33 and her mother, Rachel Ellen Sullivan, was 32. She married Harrison Allen Dennison on 11 January 1918, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States in 1935 and Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 2 December 1976, at the age of 85, and was buried in Prairieview Cemetery, Whisler, Pickaway, Ohio, United States.
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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.
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.
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.
English and Scottish: occupational name from Middle English justice, justis(e) ‘judicial officer; judge’, Old French justise, justice ‘uprightness; equity; vindication of right; court of justice; judge’, Latin iustitia, a derivative of iustus (see Just ).
African American: adoption of the surname in 1 above, because of its literal meaning in English ‘uprightness; equity; vindication of right’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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