When Florence K Mason was born on 1 December 1881, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Frank R Mason, was 28 and her mother, Mary Alice Browning, was 31. She married Martin Tinkham Brown on 27 April 1924, in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. She lived in Boston Ward 9, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. She died in May 1964, at the age of 82, and was buried in Seaside Cemetery, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
The USS Holland was the first commissioned submarine. It was named after John Philip Holland. It had been laid down in November of 1896 and launched a year later. It was acquired and commissioned in 1900 and decommissioned five years later. The submarine was finally sold in 1913 and put on display until it was scrapped in 1932.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English: occupational name from Middle English masoun ‘mason, stone worker, builder in stone’ (Old Central French maçon, masson). A Middle English form machun (derived from Old French machun) gives rise to Machin and its variants. See also Mayson . Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.
Italian (Veneto): variant of Masone .
Altered form of French Masson .
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