When Mary Elsie Holt was born on 14 December 1905, in Adair Township, Camden, Missouri, United States, her father, Dr Gideon Ernest Frank Holt, was 28 and her mother, Grace Leota Gruber, was 19. She married Homer Allen Gedney on 27 May 1924, in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Adair, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Nevada, Vernon, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died in October 1970, in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States, at the age of 64.
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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.
In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English, North German, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, from Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, and Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word. In England, the surname is widely distributed, but more common in Lancashire and Yorkshire than elsewhere.
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