When John Ralph Pennington was born on 13 March 1887, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States, his father, George Washington Pennington, was 24 and his mother, Ina Louise Holverson, was 22. He married Irene Naomi Dooley on 27 September 1914. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Douglas, Oregon, United States in 1950 and Roseburg, Douglas, Oregon, United States in 1959. He died on 14 November 1959, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Crown Hill, King, Washington, United States.
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On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
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.
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 (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
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