When George Wesley McClarren was born on 18 May 1904, in Indiana, United States, his father, Henry Rankin McClarren, was 27 and his mother, Maud Cooper, was 22. He married Ruth Annette Baker on 3 October 1929, in Lawrence, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Jefferson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Lawrence, Lawrence Township, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1950. He died in 1956, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Indianapolis, Marion, 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.
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.
Scottish: variant of McLaren .
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