Brief Life History of Irving Brown
When Irving Brown Peterson was born on 22 August 1888, in South River, East Brunswick Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Alvin Peterson, was 43 and his mother, Henrietta Frazee, was 35. He married Ada May Lutz in 1910, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1900 and Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1915. He died in February 1985, in Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 96.
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- Irvin Peterson, "New Jersey State Census, 1915"
- Peterson, "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980"
- Irving Brown Peterson, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
1894
Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
1916
"During a deadly heat wave, thousands of residents were at the seaside resorts of Jersey Shore. Between July 1 and July 2 of 1916, five different people were attacked by sharks, and four of them ultimately died. Scientific knowledge about sharks was limited at this time, so these tragic incidents started a wave of ""shark panic"" that was spread by telephone calls, letters, newspapers, and other media."
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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