When Harold Donald Garber was born on 26 June 1899, in Saint Marys Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States, his father, Edwin Benjamin Garber, was 26 and his mother, Clara B Wiswasser, was 21. He married Mary Cecelia Wellman on 17 June 1924, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio, United States in 1987. He died on 30 March 1984, in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Saint Andrew Cemetery, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Henry Ford built his first gasoline-powered vehicle, named the Quadricycle, in 1896, at his home in Detroit. Ford sold the Quadricycle for $200 and used the money to build a second car. In 1901, Ford raced his car "Sweepstakes" against Alexander Winton and won. The victory resulted in publicity for Ford which allowed him to gain investors for his new company, Ford Motor Company. The first Model A was sold on July 23, 1903, and the company was incorporated on November 13, 1903.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
North German: from a personal name composed of gēri, gāri ‘spear’ + berht ‘bright, famous’.
German: northern variant of Gerber .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Gerber , from Yiddish garber.
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