When Leda Hackney was born in September 1891, in Cedar Township, Boone, Nebraska, United States, her father, William Riley Hackney, was 36 and her mother, Appalonia Josepha Secord, was 31. She married William Edward Nearhood on 24 September 1912, in Columbus, Platte, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Boone, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Cedar Election Precinct, Boone, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died in 1963, in Cedar Rapids, Boone, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Cedar Rapids, Boone, Nebraska, United States.
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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.
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.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
English:
habitational name from Hackney in Greater London, named from an Old English personal name Haca (genitive Hacan) + ēg ‘island, dry ground in marshland’.
perhaps from Middle English hakenei (Old French haquenée), an ambling horse or mare, especially one considered suitable for women to ride; perhaps therefore a metonymic occupational name for a breeder or keeper of such horses and short for Hakeneyman. This surname has also been found in Scotland since medieval times.
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