Brief Life History of Maude Marie
When Maude Marie Still was born on 19 September 1890, in Fulton, Illinois, United States, her father, Stephen J Still, was 30 and her mother, Mary Jane Punneo, was 24. She married Joseph William Yerkes on 25 July 1923, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Waycross, Ware, Georgia, United States in 1920 and Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 February 1981, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Steelville, Crawford, Missouri, United States.
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- Maude M Yerkes in household of Joseph W Yerkes, "United States Census, 1920"
- Maude Still, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Maud Yerkes, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
English and German: nickname for a calm man, from Middle English, Middle High German stille ‘calm, silent, still’. The German name may also have denoted a (deaf) mute, from the same word in the sense ‘silent’.
English: variant of Stile .
English: variant of Stell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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