When Fern Mavis Chandler was born in November 1899, in Washington, United States, her father, Asa Hamilton Chandler, was 31 and her mother, Mabel Eunice Briggs, was 22. She married James Westley Bowden on 7 November 1926, in Baker, Oregon, United States. She lived in Milton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1900 and Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 July 1946, at the age of 46, and was buried in Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States.
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Weyerhaeuser Company started with 900,000 acres of timberland, with barely 3 employees and a small office in Tacoma, Washington. It has grown to become one of the largest sustainable forest products companies in the world.
The first U.S. primary elections were held in Oregon in 1911.
Women were granted the right to vote in Oregon on November 5, 1912, with 52% of male voters in favor.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a maker and seller of candles, from Anglo-Norman French chandeler ‘maker or seller of candles’ (Old French chandelier, Late Latin candelarius, a derivative of candela ‘candle’). While a medieval chandler no doubt made and sold other articles beside candles, the extended sense of modern English chandler does not occur until the 16th century. The name may also, more rarely, have denoted someone who was responsible for the lighting arrangements in a large house, or else one who owed rent in the form of wax or candles.
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