Brief Life History of Matilda Eveline
When Matilda Eveline Leach was born on 21 December 1887, in Colorado, United States, her father, Monterey Leroy Leach, was 38 and her mother, Harriet A. Calkins, was 34. She married William Aylett Dacre on 30 August 1915, in Ferry, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Kootenay County, British Columbia, Canada in 1911. She died on 9 July 1952, in British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Eveline Leach, "United States Census, 1910"
- Eveline Matilda Rice, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993"
- Evalin Leach in entry for Milton Aylett Dacre, "Canada, British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Gold is Discovered
In 1890, Robert Miller Womack discovers a rich gold deposit along Cripple Creek, near the western slope of Pikes Peak. This would become the richest gold strike in the Rocky Mountin area.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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