When Annie Abbie Fowles was born in 1875, in Edgecomb, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Charles E. Fowles, was 33 and her mother, Abigail Ellen Higgins, was 34. She married Jesse Field Benton on 20 March 1899, in Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1900 and Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1920.
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During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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: variant of Fowle , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Scottish: variant of Foulis, a habitational name from Fowlis in Angus, or, less commonly, from Fowlis Wester in Strathearn, Perthshire.
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