When Mary Elizabeth Gohn was born in 1874, in Illinois, United States, her father, William James Gohn, was 29 and her mother, Hannah Jane Campbell, was 32. She married Frederick Benjamin Harding from 1896 to 1904, in Vermilion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Oakwood, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1880 and East Saint Louis, St. Clair, Illinois, United States in 1920. She died on 7 September 1928, at the age of 54, and was buried in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
German: from a shortened form of the personal name Johann (see John ).
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