When Mabel Sarah Chess was born on 3 October 1886, in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Alva L Chess, was 25 and her mother, Jennie B McMannus, was 22. She married Lee Roy Beckdol on 28 October 1908, in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Sheakleyville, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Sheakleyville, Sheakleyville, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. She died on 17 August 1951, in Cool Spring, Coolspring Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Sheakleyville, Mercer, Pennsylvania, 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.
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
English (Gloucestershire): of uncertain origin. Formally it might derive from Middle English ches, chesse (Old French esches) ‘chess’ (referring to the game, a set of chess pieces, or a chess board), or from Middle English chesse ‘(poppy) seed pod’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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