Brief Life History of Elizabeth Leona
When Elizabeth Leona Mills was born on 17 January 1888, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, her father, Edward A Mills, was 40 and her mother, Margaret J Hicks, was 36. She married Don Bilton Cook on 27 December 1911, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Logan, Logan, Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died on 1 May 1964, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Morning View Cemetery, Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States.
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- Leona Cook, "United States Census, 1930"
- Leona Mills, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Leona Mills Cooke, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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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.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
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.
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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