When Emma Virginia Bodell was born on 14 September 1893, in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Joseph Samuel Henry Bodell, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Lovinia Howard, was 23. She married Horace Martin Seal on 26 January 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She died on 10 January 1981, in Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Midvale City Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
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 (Midlands): probably a variant of Bodle .
Swedish: from bod ‘small hut’ + the suffix -ell, a derivative of the Latin adjectival ending -elius.
Perhaps an altered form of German Bodelle, an occupational name for a beadle. Compare Bittel .
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