When Jennie Brogger was born on 22 October 1887, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, her father, Laurs Christian Nielsen Brøgger, was 40 and her mother, Karen Kirstine Larsen, was 36. She married Morgan Foster Larson on 7 January 1914, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States. She lived in Middlesex, New Jersey, United States in 1905. She died on 16 July 1927, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Alpine Cemetery, Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, 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.
Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Some characteristic forenames: German Ulrich, Ewald, Gerhard, Hans, Hans Peter, Kurt, Manfred, Otto.
North German (Brügger) and South German: occupational name for a bridge keeper, paver, or road builder (see Bruegger , compare Brucker ).
South German: habitational name for someone from any of various places called Brugg or Bruck in Bavaria and Austria.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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