When Leslie Loyd Sylvester was born on 6 December 1898, in Indiana, United States, his father, Harry Benjamine Sylvester, was 25 and his mother, Melissa Bell Leslie, was 26. He married Pearl Hazel Huff on 24 December 1918, in Noble, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Swan, Swan Township, Noble, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 15 October 1963, in Churubusco, Smith Township, Whitley, Indiana, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Dunn Mill, Lake Township, Allen, Indiana, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English and German: from the Middle English and Latin personal name Silvester ‘dweller in the forest’ (a derivative of silva ‘wood’). The name was borne by three popes, including a contemporary of Constantine the Great, and seems to have been first used in England by clerics.
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