When Mary Emma Chisholm was born on 1 January 1883, in Rockwall, Rockwall, Texas, United States, her father, Joseph Machenry Chisholm, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Chisholm, was 24. She married John Oswell Heath on 9 May 1906, in Rockwell, Lamar, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 22 August 1969, in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 86.
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Historical Boundaries: 1889: Orange, California, United States
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.
Scottish: habitational name from Chisholme near Hawick in southern Scotland, which derives its name from Old English c̄se, cēse ‘cheese’ (from Latin caseus) + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ and refers to a waterside meadow good for dairy farming and hence for producing cheeses. In the 14th century members of this family migrated to the Highlands, settling in Strathglass, where their name was Gaelicized as Siosal.
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