Brief Life History of Grover Thomas
When Grover Thomas Snyder was born on 12 February 1886, in Guilford Township, Medina, Ohio, United States, his father, John Abraham Snyder, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Angeline Lance, was 23. He married Jessie M Buchtel on 31 May 1910, in Medina, Ohio, United States. He lived in Washington Court House, Fayette, Ohio, United States in 1940 and Springfield, Clark, Ohio, United States in 1950. He died on 24 February 1962, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Little Lake Cemetery, Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Grover T Snyder, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grover Thomas Snyder, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Grover T Snyder, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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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.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavic(ized) variants, such as Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šnajder, Czech Šnajdr (see also Snider 1).
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Snijder, an occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sniden ‘to cut’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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