When Myrtle Mora Coalson was born on 8 September 1893, in Toyah, Reeves, Texas, United States, her father, Stephan Douglas Coalson, was 32 and her mother, Laura Belle Hutchinson, was 25. She married Eugene Edward Adams on 23 December 1914, in Toyah, Reeves, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in San Juan, Argentina in 1935 and Obrero, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1940. She died on 28 January 1979, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cementerio Buxeda Memorial Park, Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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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.
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.
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: patronymic from Cole .
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