When Nellie Beatrice Garriott was born on 29 April 1887, in Brownstown Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States, her father, Emery Elmer Garriott, was 23 and her mother, Mary Ellen Jones, was 19. She married Otto Louis Schreeg Sr on 16 January 1918, in Jasper, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Fair Oaks, Union Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 21 November 1944, in Parr, Union Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Rensselaer, Marion Township, Jasper, Indiana, 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.
The Masonic Temple Building was a skyscraper built in Chicago and from 1895 to 1920 it was the tallest building in Chicago. The building featured a central court surrounded by shops on nine floors. On top of the shops there were meeting rooms that were also used as theaters. In 1939 the Masonic Temple was demolished, and a Walgreens drug store was erected in its place.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Probably an altered form of French Gariot: nickname or topographic name from a diminutive of the past participle of the verb garer ‘to shelter or protect’. The surname Gariot is very rare in France; its altered form may have been brought to America from England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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