When Emma Adkins was born in March 1890, in Mingo, Randolph, West Virginia, United States, her father, Robert Fulton Adkins, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Marrs, was 23. She lived in Matewan, Mingo, West Virginia, United States in 1900.
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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.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: from the Middle English personal name Adkin (a pet form of Adam formed with the suffix -kin) + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name was particularly common in the English Midlands. Compare Atkins .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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