Helen Rowan was born on 7 January 1890, in Michigan, United States as the daughter of Charles E. and Hellen. She married Bernhard Anthony Horger on 24 July 1907, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Detroit Ward 22, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 20 August 1981, in Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 91.
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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.
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.
Irish: from Ó Ruadháin or Ó Ruaidhín, both meaning ‘descendant of Ruadhán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’. See also Rooney .
Irish: from Ó Ruadhacháin, ‘son of Ruadhachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’ (also used as a placename and Anglicized as Roughan). Compare also Rogan (Ó Ruadhagáin), of which may be a variant, both it and Ó Ruadhacháin being found in Ulster and Connacht.
Irish: from Ó Robhacháin, the name of a scattered ecclesiastical family, found in Clare in the 16th and 17th centuries. The personal name was earlier Reabhachán ‘skillful, artful’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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