Brief Life History of John Franklin
When John Franklin Shaw was born on 7 June 1891, in Clay, Minnesota, United States, his father, James Harrington Shaw, was 40 and his mother, Bertha Johnson, was 41. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Lena Bessie Swenson. He lived in Hagen Township, Clay, Minnesota, United States for about 5 years and Clearwater, Minnesota, United States in 1940. He died on 29 November 1967, in Clay, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Felton Township, Clay, Minnesota, United States.
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- John Shaw, "United States Census, 1940"
- John F Shaw, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- John Franklin Shaw, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
1902
Historical Boundaries: 1902: Clearwater, Minnesota, United States
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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