Brief Life History of Robert Molten
When Robert Molten Pedrick was born on 17 July 1891, in Moorestown Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, his father, Charles H Pedrick, was 25 and his mother, Katherine Briggs, was 24. He married Cornellia Barr Higgins on 28 March 1917, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Pennsauken Township, Camden, New Jersey, United States in 1915 and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died in August 1972, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Robert Pedrick in household of Charles H Pedrick, "New Jersey State Census, 1915"
- Pedrick, "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
- Robert M Pedrick, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951"
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1894
Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
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.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
Cornish: from the Cornish personal name Pedrek, a saint's name which is often met in the learned form Petrock. Pedrek is patron saint of Padstow (‘parish of Saint Pethericke alias Padistow’), but examples of the surname are not likely to be derived from the placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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