When Albert G. Stillwell was born on 28 August 1881, in Camden, New Jersey, United States, his father, Charles Glenmore Stillwell, was 34 and his mother, Jennett Hooper, was 34. He married Jennie W Robinson in 1903, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States in 1885 and Camden, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 August 1919, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 37.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
English: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Surrey. The placename derives from Middle English stighel, stile ‘stile’ + welle ‘well, spring, stream’. Compare Stile .
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