When Carl Willis Saylor was born on 6 April 1904, in Benton Township, Paulding, Ohio, United States, his father, James Henry McHilley Saylor, was 35 and his mother, Armina Catherine Lee, was 30. He married Hazel Elizabeth Bireley on 22 July 1924, in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Blue Creek Township, Paulding, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 18 February 1985, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States.
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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.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): occupational name from Middle English saillour ‘dancer, tumbler, acrobat’ (Old French sailleor). Middle English seiler, sailer ‘sailor’ seems to have appeared too late to have been involved in surname formation.
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