When Benjamin Franklin Griffith was born on 4 March 1887, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Daniel Alexander Griffith, was 35 and his mother, Malinda Jane Jordan, was 31. He married Ina Pearl Burgess on 13 November 1910, in Sissonville, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Legg, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Leevale, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1930. He died on 30 August 1945, in Artie, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Sissonville, Kanawha, West Virginia, 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.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Welsh (Carmarthenshire and western England): from the Old Welsh personal name Gruffudd, Old Welsh Grip(p)iud, composed of the elements grip, of uncertain significance, + iud ‘chief, lord’.
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