When John Frederick Swallow Sr. was born on 22 October 1904, in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States, his father, William Stewart Swallow, was 35 and his mother, Minnie Alvira Chiles, was 29. He married Mary Beranek on 17 April 1926, in Golden, Jefferson, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Weld, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Lafayette, Boulder, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 25 April 1975, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Lindquist's Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, South Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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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 (West Yorkshire):
from Middle English swal(e)we, swalu ‘swallow’ (Old English swealwe), hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird, perhaps in swiftness and grace.
habitational name from Swallow (Lincolnshire), probably from a lost river name, perhaps derived from a word related to the Indo-European root swel- ‘burn, shine’.
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