Brief Life History of Harry B
When Harry B Mills was born on 1 March 1888, in Fayette, West Virginia, United States, his father, Richard Mills, was 41 and his mother, Julia Ann Toney, was 40. He married Selah Jane Atkinson on 1 July 1907, in Lansing, Fayette, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Fayetteville District, Fayette, West Virginia, United States in 1900. He died on 2 January 1911, in Oak Hill, Fayette, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 22.
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- Harry Mills in household of R Mills, "United States Census, 1900"
- Harry Mills, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Harry B. Mills, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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