Brief Life History of John Vernou
When John Vernou Bouvier III was born on 19 May 1891, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, his father, John Vernou Bouvier Jr, was 24 and his mother, Maude Frances Sergeant, was 21. He married Janet Norton Lee in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States in 1928 and New York, United States in 1957. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 3 August 1957, in Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States.
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- John V Bouvier, "United States Census, 1940"
- John Vernon Bouvier, "New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909"
- John V Bouvier, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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1894
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.
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.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Laurier, Pascal, Adrien, Armand, Christophe, Constant, Dominique, Edouard, Jean Pierre, Jean-Paul, Lucien, Marcel.
French: occupational name for a herdsman, Old French bouvier (from Late Latin bovarius, a derivative of bos, genitive bovis ‘ox’). Compare Bouvia and Bovia .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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