When Elsie May Banister was born on 13 September 1885, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, her father, Stacy B Banister, was 64 and her mother, Jessie Ryder, was 30. She lived in New Jersey, United States in 1885 and Hazlet Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States in 1920. She died on 13 January 1961, in Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Bannister .
History: The naturalist John Banister (1650–92) was born in Gloucestershire, England, and came to VA in 1678.
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