When Arthur Filmore Burriss was born on 8 February 1886, in United States, his father, Thomas Henry Burriss, was 25 and his mother, Mary Agnes Gray, was 19. He married Ruth Emma Lindsay on 14 August 1907, in Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States for about 10 years and Kensington, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States in 1959. He died on 26 July 1959, in United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States.
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On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
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.
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: variant of Burris .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Börries or Borries or some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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