When Grace Van Volkenburg was born on 8 February 1907, in Ontario, Canada, her father, Simon Haines Van Volkenburg, was 34 and her mother, Matilda Nobes, was 32. She married Carleton Otis Reid on 11 September 1928, in Monroe, New York, United States. She immigrated to St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont, United States in 1924 and lived in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 13 February 1953, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 46.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
From the abstract noun (via Old French, from Latin gratia), this name occurs occasionally in the 15th century, and by the 1540s was among the most popular girls' names in some parishes. It has always been particularly popular in Scotland and northern England (borne, for example, by Grace Darling , the lighthouse keeper's daughter whose heroism in 1838 , saving sailors in a storm, caught the popular imagination). In more recent times it was famous as the name of the actress Grace Kelly ( 1928–82 ), who became Princess Grace of Monaco. In Ireland it is used as an Anglicized form of Gráinne .
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