Brief Life History of Lillie E.
When Lillie E. Marelius was born in September 1869, in Illinois, United States, her father, Erik Edmund Marelius, was 47 and her mother, Caroline Dahl, was 39. She married Olaus Christiansen Engebretsen Wold on 20 January 1892, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 1 May 1942, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Lillie Wold in household of Olans Wold, "United States Census, 1940"
- Lillie E. Wold, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Lillie Marelius, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1872 · Montgomery Ward Inc.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
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.
Name Meaning
From the vocabulary word for the flower (via Old French, from Latin lilium), regarded in Christian imagery as a symbol of purity. In recent times, it has become a popular component of compound names such as Lily-Anne, Lily-May, Lily-Rose, and Tigerlily.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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