When Clarence Devers was born in May 1886, in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, his father, Cassander Otto Deavers, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Catherine Linson, was 31. He had at least 1 son with Anna Devers. He lived in Columbus, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States in 1930 and Columbus Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 12 October 1968, in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Columbus, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States.
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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.
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.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Irish: variant of Dever , with the addition of English excrescent -s.
In some cases possibly also French: habitational name, with fused preposition de ‘from’, denoting someone from a place called Vers, especially the one in Saône-et-Loire, from the Gaulish element ver(n) ‘alder’.
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