When Miriam Thomas Rudder was born on 22 July 1885, in Mason, Texas, United States, her father, Alexander Perry Rudder, was 50 and her mother, Francis Jane Tyler, was 42. She married John Henry Musick in 1906, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Eden, Concho, Texas, United States in 1930 and San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 1 December 1968, in Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
German: variant of Ruder 2.
Altered form of German Ruder 1 and 2.
English: topographic name from Middle English rude ‘clearing’ (Old English rȳd) + the agent suffix -er, for someone who lived in or near a clearing.
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