When Agnes Heiden was born on 16 February 1890, in Ripon, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Wilhelm Carl Heiden, was 47 and her mother, Caroline Friederike Christiane Boers, was 42. She married Orlie Summer Brown on 22 February 1909, in Mulhall, Logan, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Orlando, Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Detroit Ward 19, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920. She died on 15 April 1973, in Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 83.
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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.
Detroit was the home of the second dime and nickel stores that S. S. Kresge owned. After two years with John McCrory, his partner, he traded his share in the Memphis store, plus $3,000, for full ownership of the Detroit store and formed the Kresge & Wilson Company with his brother-in-law, Charles J. Wilson. In 1962, the S. S. Kresge Company would rebrand and change their name to Kmart.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin, Kurt, Dietmar, Hannelore, Lorenz, Siegfried, Wolfgang.
German: habitational name from any of several places so named, for example in Westphalia and Switzerland.
German: nickname from Middle High German heiden ‘heathen’, Old High German heidano, apparently a derivative of heida ‘heath’, modeled on Latin paganus (see Payen ). The nickname was sometimes used to refer to a Christian knight who had been on a Crusade to fight in the Holy Land.
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