Brief Life History of Horace Rand
When Horace Rand Lamb was born on 7 July 1892, in Sandusky, Erie, Ohio, United States, his father, Burt Israel Lamb, was 27 and his mother, Harriet Thompson Davis, was 24. He married Beatrice Louise Pitney on 8 February 1930, in Washington National Cathedral, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and New York City, New York, United States in 1935. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 11 November 1977, in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 85.
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- R Horace Lamb in household of I Bert Lamb, "United States Census, 1900"
- Horace R. Lamb, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Horace Rand Lamb, "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950"
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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.
1913 · The Woolworth Building Opens as the Tallest Building in the World
At 792 feet above Broadway, the Woolworth Building became the tallest building in the world and held the record for 17 years. The Woolworth Building was overshadowed by the Chrysler Building at 1,046 feet in 1930 and the Empire State Building at 1,454 feet in 1931. Retailer and mogul Frank W. Woolworth commissioned the Woolworth Building in 1910 with the intent of his namesake building to be the tallest in the world. The 13 million dollar project was financed in cash by Woolworth which allowed him freedoms in the design and construction of the ornate, gothic building. An opening ceremony was held on April 24, 1913 at which President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button from the White House and lit the historic building in New York City.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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