When Mary Viola Cheney was born on 31 January 1886, in English Township, Iowa, Iowa, United States, her father, James Martin Cheney, was 39 and her mother, Clarissa Lucinda Metzinger, was 35. She married Millard Filmore Claypool on 21 January 1906, in Iowa, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Iowa Township, Iowa, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Fillmore Township, Iowa, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 July 1956, in Williamsburg, Iowa, Iowa, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Millersburg Cemetery, Millersburg, Iowa, Iowa, 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.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
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 Chaney with the same etymology as in 2 below.
French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’ (from chesne ‘oak’), or a habitational name from any of several places called (Le) Cheney, e.g. in Haute-Savoie, named with this word. Compare Chesney .
French Canadian: altered form of French Chesnay or Chenay, topographic names with the same meaning and etymology as in 2 above, or habitational names from (Le) Chesnay or (Le) Chenay, names of several places in the northwestern part of France, based on Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’. Compare Chenette and Chenier 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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