When Alice Leoar Graham was born on 23 October 1889, in Hot Springs, Madison, North Carolina, United States, her father, Burton Salathiel Graham, was 31 and her mother, Candace Sophronia Hefner, was 32. She married Phillip Washington Keller on 28 May 1905, in Madison, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Hot Springs Township, Madison, North Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 9 December 1931, in Hot Springs, Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Hot Springs, Madison, North Carolina, 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.
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Scottish: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as Grantham, Grandham, and Granham). See also Grantham .
Irish (especially Ulster): in Ireland Graham is generally the Scottish name, but it has additionally been adopted as an Anglicized form of both Ó Creacháin (see Crehan ) and Ó Gormghaile (see Gormley ).
History: The surname Graham was taken to Scotland at the beginning of the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham, holder of the manor of Grantham in Lincolnshire, from whom many if not all modern bearers are probably descended. The chief of Clan Graham is the Duke of Montrose.
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