When Charles Albert Wood was born on 15 April 1889, in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Henry Albert Wood, was 27 and his mother, Lillie Ellen Davenport, was 27. He married Annie Maude Etta Moody on 7 April 1920, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1935 and Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States for about 12 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 6 May 1947, in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, 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.
On January 27, 1895, College Hall catches on fire and is fully consumed within one hour. During the fire, many students and faculty work together to save many of the items in the building. Some of these are library books. They save the books by piling them onto the rugs and dragging them out of the burning building. College Hall is then later rebuilt and renamed Davis Hall after Governor John W. Davis.
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: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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