When Joseph Lemieux was born in 1864, in Canada, his father, Joseph Octave Lemieux, was 29 and his mother, Marie Démerise Gaudreau, was 28. He lived in Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1880.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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.
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Pierre, Normand, Andre, Laurent, Gilles, Jacques, Marcel, Adrien, Aime, Elzear, Emile.
French: nickname from le mieux ‘the best’, or a habitational name, with fused masculine definite article le, from Saint-Martin-de-Mieux or some other place called Mieux. In North America it is sometimes translated into English as Better or Betters .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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