When Ada Matilda Horton was born on 25 March 1888, in White Plains, Westchester, New York, United States, her father, Mortimer Stillwell Horton, was 24 and her mother, Catherine Rheinfrank, was 32. She married Robert Greenlaw Milne on 15 September 1909, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in New York City, New York, United States in 1915 and Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 19 July 1957, in New York, United States, at the age of 69.
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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.
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.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
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