When Lenola Umfleet was born on 7 March 1892, in Lawrence, Illinois, United States, her father, Tillman Umfleet, was 30 and her mother, Margaret Atkins, was 24. She married Albert Roy Fiscus on 20 February 1912, in Lawrence, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Christy Township, Lawrence, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Lukin Township, Lawrence, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 27 February 1980, in Oxnard, Ventura, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Sumner, Lawrence, Illinois, United States.
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Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
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.
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.
Altered form of English (Worcestershire) Anfleet or Amphlett, a topographic name from Middle English an flete ‘by the stream’, in this case most probably the River Severn. Old English flēot ‘stream, estuary, creek’ is a common placename element in English (see Fleet ). Holt Fleet ‘the wood by the river’ is the name of a place on the River Severn near where this surname was established in the 14th century.
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