Brief Life History of Effie Gertrude
When Effie Gertrude Bailes was born on 8 June 1891, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Bingmon Bailes, was 24 and her mother, Cordelia Hamilton, was 18. She married Ashley Edgar McPeak on 24 September 1948, in Lucas, Ohio, United States. She lived in Richmond District, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 15 January 1979, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 87.
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- Effie Bailes in household of Joseph Bailes, "United States Census, 1900"
- Effie Bailes Oliver, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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World Events (8)
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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 (Durham): variant of Bales or Bayliss .
English: variant of Bale 1, from the genitive case of Middle English bail(e) ‘bailey, outer wall of a castle’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived beside a castle. Compare Bail and Bailey .
Spanish: plural form of Baile .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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