When Joy Lucille Wolcott was born on 18 January 1912, in Waterloo Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, her father, Fred Robinson Wolcott, was 30 and her mother, Laura Mae Bradfield, was 24. She lived in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States in 1930 and Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 9 March 2007, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Desert View Memorial Park, Victorville, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
English (Devon and Surrey): habitational name from Wollacott in Thrushelton (Devon), named from the Old English personal name Wulfnōth + cot ‘cottage, hut, shelter’. This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
History: Henry Wolcott (1578–1655), clothier, came from Tolland, Somerset, England, and settled in Windsor, CT, in 1636. His grandson Roger (1679–1767) was colonial governor of CT; his great-grandson Oliver (1726–1797) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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