Brief Life History of Bertha Viola
When Bertha Viola Mills was born on 15 August 1887, in Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Davis Collins Mills, was 21 and her mother, Bella F Horrocks, was 20. She married Stanley Lewis Brown on 6 December 1912, in Newtonville, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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- Bertha D Mells in household of Bella F Forrand, "United States Census, 1910"
- Bertha Viola Dungan, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Bertha Viola Mills, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
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.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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