Brief Life History of Rose
When Rose Riskovsky was born on 18 December 1893, in Russia, her father, Louis Riskovsky, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Kanterowitz, was 31. She lived in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1920. She died on 14 November 1978, in Deer Park, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Love Brothers Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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Sources (2)
- Rose Riskovsky in household of Sarah Riskovsky, "United States Census, 1920"
- Rose Rist, "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007"
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World Events (8)
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
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
Ostensibly from the vocabulary word denoting the flower (Latin rosa). However, the name was in use throughout the Middle Ages, long before any of the other girls' names derived from flowers, which are generally of 19th-century origin. In part it may refer to the flower as a symbol of the Virgin Mary, but it seems more likely that it also has a Germanic origin, probably as a short form of various girls' names based on hros ‘horse’ or hrōd ‘fame’. The Latinate form Rohesia is commonly found in documents of the Middle Ages. As well as being a name in its own right, it is currently used as a short form of Rosemary and, less often (because of their different pronunciation), of other names beginning Ros-, such as Rosalind and Rosamund .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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