When Alice Helen Garland was born on 18 September 1894, in Center Conway, Conway, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, her father, John Henry Garland, was 26 and her mother, Rosina Ann Fursdon, was 23. She married Henry Irving Currier on 25 October 1924, in Center Conway, Conway, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States in 1973 and Lexington, Virginia, United States in 1973. She died on 2 June 1973, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78.
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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.
On March 11, 1899 the USS Shubrick was laid, on October 31, 1899 it was launched. The ship was named after William Branford Shubrick. It was sponsored by Miss Caroline Shubrick and commissioned in 1901 with Lt Allen M Cook in command.
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: from Middle English gerlond, ger(e)land, garlond ‘metal chaplet, crown, coronet; wreath’, probably a nickname denoting a habitual wearer of such items, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of them.
English: perhaps from the Old French personal name Gerland (ancient Germanic Garuland, probably from garw- ‘war-gear; prepared(ness)’ + land ‘land’; the first element of the French name may instead be from a name beginning with gēr ‘spear’).
English: topographic name from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English gāra + land, lond), for someone who lived ‘(at the) triangular piece of land’. Compare Garfield .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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