When Napoleon Pemberton was born in April 1899, in Virginia, United States, his father, William Scott Pemberton, was 48 and his mother, Alice Green Clayton, was 31. He lived in Manchester, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States in 1900. He died before 1910, in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Maggie Lena Walker was the first African American and woman to open a bank. She opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on August 20, 1901. She encouraged the young people to start saving their pennies in her bank and when they hit a hundred pennies they could start a bank account with the bank.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchestercalled Pemberton, from Celtic penn ‘hill, head’ + Old Englishbere ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: There seem to have been several families called de Pemberton in theWigan area of Manchester, England, as early as the beginning of the 13th century, notably thatof Adam de Pemberton, a substantial landowner Three Quaker brothers named Pemberton were born in Philadelphia: Israel (born 1715), James (born 1723), and John (born 1727); Israel and James became wealthy merchants and philanthropists.
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