When James Alma Hooper was born on 1 January 1888, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, James Hays Hooper, was 34 and his mother, Martine Concordia Celine Petersen Madsen, was 26. He married Robenia Sproul on 11 October 1911, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 2 June 1973, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, 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.
On July 19, 1911, the Royal Liver Building opened officially. It was the first major structure in Britain and one of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete.
English (southwestern): occupational name for a cooper, someone who fitted wooden or metal hoops on wooden casks and barrels, or a barrel-maker, from Middle English hoper, an agent derivative of hop ‘hoop, band’. Compare Cooper .
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