Brief Life History of John Eden
When John Eden Moore was born on 8 August 1912, in Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States, his father, Howard Claude Moore, was 29 and his mother, Geske 'Cassie' Aline Eden, was 26. He married Florence Elizabeth Byron on 4 September 1937, in Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in May 1960, in Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States.
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- John Moore, "United States Census, 1940"
- U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
- John E Moore, "Find A Grave Index"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1913 · Women get the right to vote in Illinois
Grace Wilbur Trout was elected president of the Chicago Political Equality League and started her presidency by making sure that each senate district was supporting suffrage for women. A few months later, the bill was up for voting in the state. Trout and her team went as far as to get male voters from their homes. The bill passed giving Women the right to vote for President of the Nation and all local offices not in the Illinois Constitution.
1925 · Woman's World's Fair
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place, or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.
English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’, either someone from North Africa or, more often, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau .
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More, Maur, Latin Maurus), originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell , Morrin , Morris , and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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