Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Madeline (Madge) McDowell Breckinridge (May 20, 1872 – November 25, 1920) was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky. She married Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, which advocated women's rights, and she lived to see the women of Kentucky vote for the first time in the presidential election of 1920.
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
First National Bank, 10 F. 894 (W.D. Pa. 1882), is one of the very earliest precedent-setting US federal court cases involving common law name change. [126] A woman who had changed her last name to one that was not her husband's original surname was trying to claim control over her inheritance. The court ruled in her favor. This set forth many ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
East Hall, c. 1914 Gymnasium, c. 1914. On January 11, 1913, the board of trustees announced that the institution's name would change to Kentucky College for Women. [7] The college had received a gift of $57,000 ($1,541,414 in 2022 money) from Dr. Nathaniel W. Conkling on New York, as well gifts totaling $175,000 ($5,394,949 in 2022 money) from other donors. [7]
Austria: Since 1 April 2013, marriage does not automatically change a woman's name; therefore a name change can only take place upon legal application. Before that date, the situation was the opposite: a married woman's name was changed to that of her husband, unless she legally applied to opt-out of the default situation. [331]
August – Asa Whitney, merchant and promoter of the first transcontinental railroad (born 1791) August 11 – Lowell Mason, organist and composer (born 1792) September 18 – Augustus Seymour Porter, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1840 to 1845 (born 1798) September 22 – Garrett Davis, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (born 1801)
The business magazine credits Gustavson as the largest shareholder of Public Storage, the company her father cofounded in 1972. All told, she owns a 10% stake in the company, where she worked from ...