When Isabell May Peterson was born on 27 May 1887, in Almy, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, her father, Charles Henry Peterson, was 20 and her mother, Mary Nelson Bruce, was 21. She died on 11 April 1895, in her hometown, at the age of 7, and was buried in Afton Cemetery, Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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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.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
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Possible Related NamesMary Nelson Bruce was born 15 April 1866 at Motherwell, Lanark Scotland. She was the fourth child of James Barefield and Elizabeth Wilson. To this union, twelve children were born. James Barefield was …
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