Brief Life History of Grace Josephine
When Grace Josephine Fowler was born on 31 January 1887, in Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States, her father, John Fowler, was 42 and her mother, Lucretia Jennie Wickham, was 30. She married Amos Franklin Sawvell on 25 July 1906, in Iroquois, Kingsbury, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Monroe Township, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Banner Township, Beadle, South Dakota, United States for about 30 years. She died on 21 August 1950, in Beadle, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Iroquois, Kingsbury, South Dakota, United States.
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- Grace J Fowler, "South Dakota State Census, 1905"
- Grace Josephine Fowler im Eintrag für Ralph Allen Sapp und Ruth Lillian Sawvell, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Grace J Sawvell, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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