When Mary Rebecca Plunkett was born on 12 March 1887, in Montgomery, Grant, Louisiana, United States, her father, James Monroe Plunkett, was 30 and her mother, Mary Frances "Fannie" Moore, was 22. She married Ebenezer C Hays on 4 June 1905, in Montgomery, Grant, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Ward Seven, Grant, Louisiana, United States in 1900 and Ward Six, Winn, Louisiana, United States in 1910. She died on 10 May 1965, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, 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.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a metathesized form of Plouquenet in Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany, so named from Breton plou ‘parish’ (from Latin plebs ‘people’) + Guenec, the personal name (a diminutive of guen ‘white’) of a somewhat obscure saint. As an Irish name, it has been Gaelicized as Pluincéid.
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