Brief Life History of Berta Anabel "Mable"
When Berta Anabel "Mable" Martin was born on 24 November 1886, in Rocky Run Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, James D Martin, was 37 and her mother, Martha Rice Clark, was 33. She married George Elmer Schafer on 6 September 1905, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Warsaw, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 26 May 1965, in Keokuk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Mabel Schafer in household of George Schafer, "United States Census, 1940"
- Berta Anabel Martin, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Mabel Martin, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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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.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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