Brief Life History of Bessi
When Bessi Douglas was born about 1905, in Wauchula, Hardee, Florida, United States, her father, Leva Douglas, was 32 and her mother, Julie Ann Altman, was 24. She died about 1961, in Lake Wales, Polk, Florida, United States, at the age of 58.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Bessi Douglas - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Bessi Douglas
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
1906 · Licencing Butchers
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
1911
Historical Boundaries: 1911: Polk, Florida, United States
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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