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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.
A monument honoring the Provo pioneers and Indian war veterans was dedicated on July 24, 1909, as Pioneer Park opened to the public.
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, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMy husband's father, Joseph Stoker Thurgood was serving an LDS mission in Toronto, Canada 1919-1921. The mission headquarters were in Rochester, New York. He and many other missionaries were traveling together to a mission conference at the mission headquarters in Rochester, New York when they stopped on their way at the Smith Farm in Palmyra, NY on their way. Dad put three pictures on one page of his photo album of his trip to Palmyra, this one of Dawn Guerdon Bean in the arms of Joseph Stoker Thurgood, one of his mother Sister Rebecca Bean with Willard's daughter Phyllis Dee Beam from Willard's first marriage and one of the Sacred Grove where young Joseph Smith Jr. prayed and received a visitation from Heavenly Father and his Son Jesus Christ. It was such a delight to realize that our Daddy was one of the many missionaries who stopped at the home of Willard and Rebecca Bean on the Smith Family Farm in Palmyra, New York, although they stayed in a hotel in Palmyra. Their lives of service, sacrifice and Faith combine throughout time... touching our own.
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