When Bessie Blanche Kimball was born on 18 September 1874, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Philander P Kimball, was 31 and her mother, Laura Ann Heister, was 39. She married Robert Henry Kerr in 1896. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 12 June 1921, in Mineral Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Raymilton, Mineral Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English:
habitational name from Great and Little Kimble (Buckinghamshire). The placename probably derives from Old English cyne ‘royal’ + belle ‘(bell-shaped) hill’.
variant of Kimble .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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