When Sarah Almeda Elwell was born on 13 April 1881, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States, her father, Newman E Elwell, was 38 and her mother, Mary Augusta Stevens, was 29. She married Hugh Edward Chase on 9 March 1900, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States for about 20 years. She died on 12 January 1976, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Bennington Village Cemetery, Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
The USS Holland was the first commissioned submarine. It was named after John Philip Holland. It had been laid down in November of 1896 and launched a year later. It was acquired and commissioned in 1900 and decommissioned five years later. The submarine was finally sold in 1913 and put on display until it was scrapped in 1932.
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: habitational name from Elwell in Dorset, from Old English hǣl ‘omen’ or hǣle ‘hale, safe’ or hǣllu ‘health, healing’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’. The reference is probably to a spring now called the Wishing Well. Compare Halliwell .
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