When Cora Keener was born in 1888, in Benton, Missouri, United States, her father, James Keener, was 28 and her mother, Fanny Edwards, was 30. She married Andrew Jackson Clements Jr. about 1901. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Mound Prairie Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Yell Township, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1930.
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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 Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Americanized form of German Kiener or Kühner (see Kuehner ).
English: variant of Keenor, a habitational name from Keynor in Sidlesham (Sussex), derived from Old English cȳna, genitive plural of cū ‘cow’, + ōra ‘bank, edge, slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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