When Grover Cleveland Brand was born on 23 September 1888, in Neosho, Missouri, United States, his father, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Brand, was 44 and his mother, Mary Bulless, was 38. He married Ada Naomi Evans on 21 April 1914, in Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Erie Township, McDonald, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Franklin Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1950. He died on 29 August 1972, in Coffeyville, Montgomery, Kansas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Spurgeon, Newton, Missouri, United States.
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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.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
English, Scottish, North German, Scandinavian, Dutch, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from the ancient Germanic personal name Brando, Old Norse Brandr, a short form of various compound names containing the element brand ‘sword’ (a derivative of brinnan ‘to flash’), of which the best known is Hildebrand . There is placename evidence for Brant(a) as an Old English personal name; however, the Middle English personal name Brand was probably introduced to England from Old Norse.
German: variant of Brandt 1 and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Swedish and Danish: ornamental name or nickname from brand ‘fire’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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