Brief Life History of Grace Ann
When Grace Ann Gates was born on 24 June 1888, in Ludlow, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Orison Norman Gates, was 42 and her mother, Harriet Isabel Wilder, was 40. She married Harold Earl Abbott on 22 May 1918, in Ludlow, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years and Weston, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. She died on 5 May 1959, in Coventry, Orleans, Vermont, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Barton, Orleans, Vermont, United States.
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- Grace Abbott, "United States Census, 1950"
- Grace Gates Abbott, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mrs Grace A Abbott, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
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.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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