Brief Life History of Effie Edna
When Effie Edna Cole was born on 22 August 1881, in Almena Township, Van Buren, Michigan, United States, her father, Daniel Darius Cole, was 34 and her mother, Emma E. Van Wickle Cole, was 24. She married Otto Ferdinand Wenzlaff on 15 November 1905, in Benona Township, Oceana, Michigan, United States. She lived in Golden Township, Oceana, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Shelby, Shelby Township, Oceana, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died in April 1970, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Edna E Wentzloff in household of Otto F Wentzloff, "United States Census, 1930"
- Edna E Cole, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- E.Edna Cole, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
"The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit ""water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."" H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, ""TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII""."
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
Name Meaning
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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