Raymond Waynick Clow

Brief Life History of Raymond Waynick

When Raymond Waynick Clow was born on 10 July 1889, in Iowa, United States, his father, Peter G Clow, was 34 and his mother, Nellie J. Waynick, was 24. He married Eva Gloria Hagan on 15 November 1910, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1910 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1920. He died on 12 July 1952, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Raymond Waynick Clow
1889–1952
Mathilda Laverne “Tillie” Sommers
1900–1979
Marriage: after 1942

Sources (16)

  • Raymond Clow, "Iowa State Census, 1905"
  • Raymond Waynick Clow, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
  • Raymond Waynick Colow, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

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.

Name Meaning

English (East Midlands and East Anglia): probably from Middle English cloue, a false singular form of Middle English clouse ‘bar, enclosure, narrow pass’, later ‘mill dam, sluice-gate, floodgate’. See Clowes .

English and Scottish (southern and central Scotland): variant of Clough 1.

English (Devon): from an earlier form of modern Cornish cleath ‘dyke, earthwork’, as found in the placename Clovelly (Devon) and most likely a habitational name referring to that place.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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