When James Earl Card was born on 29 April 1886, in Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States, his father, George Scott Card, was 25 and his mother, Lillian Dearborn, was 21. He married Ruth A. Nelson on 12 August 1908, in Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 22 March 1974, in Clarence, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 87.
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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.
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English (Kent and Sussex): perhaps from Middle English carde ‘card’, an implement for teasing wool for spinning (from medieval Latin cardus) and therefore short for Carder or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of wool carders. Alternatively, from Middle English carde ‘playing card’ (Old French carte), also ‘kind of fabric’ (medieval Latin carda), which could have been a nickname given to a card player or a metonymic occupational name for maker and seller of the fabric.
Irish: shortened form of McCard .
French: from a shortened form of the personal name Ricardon, a pet form of Richard .
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