When Annie Cowell was born in 1887, in Nebraska, United States, her father, John Thomas Cowell, was 43 and her mother, Mary Louise Albrecht, was 29. She married George Wilburn Burton on 25 June 1908. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Buffalo, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died in November 1971, in Red Bank Borough, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 84.
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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.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Irish and Manx: shortened form of McCawell, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’). Compare Caulfield . Alternatively, a shortened form of Gaelic Mac (Giolla) Comhghaill ‘son of (the devotee of) Saint Comhghal’. Compare Cool .
Irish: shortened form of McCool .
English: habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and Gloucestershire called Cowhill, from Old English cū ‘cow’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from Cowleigh Park in Worcestershire. The modern pronunciation rhymes with trowell.
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