Brief Life History of Howard Richard
When Howard Richard Goodhue was born in February 1891, in Quebec, Canada, his father, Edward Goodhue, was 24 and his mother, Marie Florence Russel, was 26. He married Mabel May Tracy in 1909, in Saint-Armand-Est, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Auburn, Cayuga, New York, United States in 1892 and Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1985, at the age of 94, and was buried in Abbott's Corner, Frelighsburg, Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada.
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- Howard R Goodhue, "New York State Census, 1892"
- Howard Richard Goodhue, "Find A Grave Index"
- Howard Goodhue in entry for Lawrence Goodhue and Thelma Sornburger, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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Name Meaning
English (Kent): nickname for a trusted servant, from Middle English gode ‘good’ + hewe ‘servant’ (a derivative of Old English hīwan ‘retinue, household’).
English (Kent): alternatively, from an Old Norse personal name Guthhugi, from guth ‘god, God’ + hugi, hugr ‘mind, memory’. This surname (in any of the two possible senses; see also 2 above) is very rare in Britain.
Americanized form of French Canadian Goddu .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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