When Nola Martha Reed was born on 25 April 1884, in Oblong Township, Crawford, Illinois, United States, her father, Nelson Douglas Reed, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Rose Rosa Martin, was 23. She married Alonzo Edmund Compton on 16 March 1913. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 17 University Heights, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States in 1940. She died on 20 June 1965, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in New Robinson Cemetery, Robinson Township, Crawford, Illinois, United States.
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The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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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.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
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