When Flavey Gladys Umphress was born on 19 March 1905, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States, her father, Thomas Sherman Umphress, was 39 and her mother, Emma Rosetta Speer, was 31. She married Ralph Leslie Cummings on 5 January 1923, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Flinn Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Guthrie, Marshall Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 21 September 1936, in Bedford, Shawswick Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Proctor Cemetery, Fort Ritner, Guthrie Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States.
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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.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English and Welsh: variant of Humphries .
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