When Ross Marion Conover was born on 31 October 1893, in High Bridge, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, his father, Ambrose Fritts Conover, was 24 and his mother, Laura Ann Cregar, was 21. He married Erna R Schuyler in 1930, in New Jersey, United States. He lived in New Jersey, United States in 1893. He died in December 1961, in Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Fairmount, Tewksbury Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States.
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Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
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.
The Standard Oil Company had reached a point of almost complete monopoly, managing over 90% of oil flows in the United States. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was a large, integrated association that produced, transported, refined, and marketed the product. In 1911, the Supreme Court declared that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. As a result, it was split into 34 smaller companies.
Americanized form of Dutch Couwenhoven, a habitational name from the farmhouse Couwenhoven in Hoogland, Utrecht.
History: Wolfert Gerritsz. (van Couwenhoven), settled in 1624–25 as one of the first immigrants from Amersfoort to New-Netherland. By the time the descendants of original Dutch settlers on Long Island had reached western PA, the name Couwenhoven had evolved into Conover.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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