When Harry Gaylord Cross was born on 26 October 1889, in Michigan, United States, his father, Reverend Ezra Allen Cross, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Jane "Sadie" Hare, was 29. He married Norma Eleen Bitters on 20 August 1913, in Rochester, Oakland, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Detroit Ward 22, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 15 October 1952, in Rochester, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rochester, Oakland, Michigan, 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.
Detroit was the home of the second dime and nickel stores that S. S. Kresge owned. After two years with John McCrory, his partner, he traded his share in the Memphis store, plus $3,000, for full ownership of the Detroit store and formed the Kresge & Wilson Company with his brother-in-law, Charles J. Wilson. In 1962, the S. S. Kresge Company would rebrand and change their name to Kmart.
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: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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