When Verlin Glen Stearns was born on 8 September 1898, in Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States, his father, Warren Ira Stearns, was 22 and his mother, Maude Fisher, was 18. He married Katherine Williams on 28 December 1923, in Muskegon Heights, Muskegon, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Chestonia Township, Antrim, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died in August 1976, in Midway, Baxter, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Mountain Home, Baxter, Arkansas, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
"Henry Ford built his first gasoline-powered vehicle, named the Quadricycle, in 1896, at his home in Detroit. Ford sold the Quadricycle for $200 and used the money to build a second car. In 1901, Ford raced his car ""Sweepstakes"" against Alexander Winton and won. The victory resulted in publicity for Ford which allowed him to gain investors for his new company, Ford Motor Company. The first Model A was sold on July 23, 1903, and the company was incorporated on November 13, 1903."
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English: variant of Stearn , with post-medieval excrescent -s (see Stern ).
History: In 1646 Charles Stearns was admitted as a freeman of Watertown, MA.
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