When William Thomas Boam was born on 6 January 1887, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William McGhie Boam, was 27 and his mother, Mary Lovenia Moss, was 20. He married Laura Erskine Dangerfield on 27 September 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 30 years. He died on 29 August 1981, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
English (now most common in Derbyshire): possibly a variant of Boon .
In some cases possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch and North German Boom .
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