When Obie Lawrence Weaver was born on 22 July 1886, in Milroy, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jeremiah Weaver, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Mary Wagner, was 22. He married Stella Maude Wagner on 8 June 1911, in Lewistown, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Burnham, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Spring Township, Snyder, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 11 February 1939, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Milroy, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, 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.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
English: occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).
English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire, now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’, for example German Weber , Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Tkacz or Tkach , Hungarian Takács (see Takacs ), and Slovenian Tkalec, Tekavec or Veber .
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