When Grace Alice Wanless was born on 18 April 1881, in Lewis, West Virginia, United States, her father, Davis Wanless, was 46 and her mother, Rosanna Cutright, was 35. She died on 17 December 1897, in her hometown, at the age of 16, and was buried in Vandalia, Lewis, West Virginia, 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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
Scottish and English (Durham and Northumberland): nickname from Middle English and Older Scots wanles ‘luckless, hopeless, despairing’.
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