When William McClelland Fryer was born on 12 May 1866, in Canton, Lewis, Missouri, United States, his father, John Fryer, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Ann Calvert, was 26. He married Geraldine White on 31 May 1901, in Kankakee, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Milton Township, DuPage, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 5 years. He died on 6 February 1956, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Carman, Henderson, Illinois, United States.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
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.
English: variant of Freer 1.
Americanized form of German Freier or Freyer .
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