When Charles Lloyd Goad was born on 25 September 1899, in Coldwater, Branch, Michigan, United States, his father, William Franklin Goad, was 31 and his mother, Martha Virginia Murray, was 27. He married Pearl Lorriane Bledsoe on 12 February 1923, in Bernie, Stoddard, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 4 June 1957, in Dexter, Stoddard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Stoddard, Missouri, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Henry Ford built his first gasoline-powered vehicle, named the Quadricycle, in 1896, at his home in Detroit. Ford sold the Quadricycle for $200 and used the money to build a second car. In 1901, Ford raced his car "Sweepstakes" against Alexander Winton and won. The victory resulted in publicity for Ford which allowed him to gain investors for his new company, Ford Motor Company. The first Model A was sold on July 23, 1903, and the company was incorporated on November 13, 1903.
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.
Probably an Americanized form of German Gohde or Godde, variants of Gott 1.
English: perhaps from the Middle English personal name Gode, see Good .
English: metonymic occupational name for a cattle driver, from Middle English go(u)de ‘goad for driving oxen, spike’ (Old English gād); compare Gadd .
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