When Sarah Jane Penfold was born on 10 March 1888, in Maple Grove Township, Barry, Michigan, United States, her father, Peter Penfold, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Jane Iles, was 40. She married Jay Fremont Davis on 15 January 1907, in Barry, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Bedford, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Bedford Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 25 November 1942, in Hastings, Barry, Michigan, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Ellis Cemetery, Assyria, Assyria Township, Barry, 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.
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.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English (Sussex, Surrey and Kent): from Middle English pin-fold, pen-fold, pun(d)-fold ‘animal pound’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals or, most likely, a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of such a pound. Compare Pinder .
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