When George Thurman Henson was born on 4 August 1888, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States, his father, Alferd Boyd Henson, was 34 and his mother, Seralda Jane Killian, was 36. He married Mattie Octavia Senter on 1 August 1913, in Madison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Johnson Township, Carter, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Van Buren, Carter, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 September 1962, in Poplar Bluff, Butler, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Masonic And Van Buren Cemetery, Van Buren, Carter, Missouri, 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.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal names Hen, Hend(e), or Hendy (pet forms of Henry or Hendry ) + son. Compare Henderson . Hendy may also have been derived from Middle English hendy ‘courteous’, used as a personal name (see Hendy ).
English: perhaps sometimes a variant of Hainson, a patronymic meaning ‘son of Hayne’; see Hain 2.
English: in Devon, where patronymics in -son rarely originated, perhaps a variant of Hingston .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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