When Vera Izora Palmer was born on 12 November 1888, in Cheshire Township, Allegan, Michigan, United States, her father, John James Palmer, was 34 and her mother, Ida I Quick, was 29. She married Joseph Max Young on 15 December 1912, in Van Buren, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Union, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Creston, Union, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 6 November 1948, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 59.
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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.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
English: nickname from Middle English palmer(e) ‘palmer, pilgrim to the Holy Land’ (Anglo-Norman French palmer, Old French pa(l)mer, paum(i)er), so called from the palm branch carried by such pilgrims. The term was also used to denote an itinerant monk who traveled from shrine to shrine under a vow of poverty. This surname is also common in Ireland, where it has been recorded from the 13th century onward.
Irish: when not of English origin (see 1 above), a surname adopted for Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair (see Milford ), the name of an ecclesiastical family.
Swedish (mainly Palmér): ornamental name formed with palm ‘palm tree’ + the suffix -ér (a derivative of Latin -erius) or -er (from German).
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