When Joseph Lester Rigby was born on 4 August 1891, in Newton, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Eckersley Rigby, was 24 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Beck, was 21. He married Harriet Maria Lucas on 28 May 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hibbard Election Precinct, Madison, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 25 October 1976, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, 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 three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Ribby in Lancashire, named with Old Scandanavian hryggr ‘ridge’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. Compare Rigsby .
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