When Dorotha Zebulene Stevenson was born on 14 December 1904, in Moulton, Moulton Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States, her father, Francis Simeon Stevenson, was 32 and her mother, Ann Lura Campbell, was 33. She married Rev Lester Emerson Lee on 2 September 1925, in Lucas, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States in 1940 and Summerfield Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States in 1950. She died on 8 June 1981, in Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Petersburg, Monroe, Michigan, 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: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Steven, Stephen (see Steven ) + -son. This surname is also very common in northern Ireland (especially Antrim and Down), where it has been interchangeable with Steenson and Stinson . In North America, this surname has also absorbed various European cognates, such as Danish, Norwegian, and North German Steffensen or Stephensen ; see also Stevens .
Scottish: variant of Stevenston, a habitational name from Stevenston (Ayrshire), Stevenson in Newlands (Peeblesshire), or Stevenson in Haddington (East Lothian). The placename in each case derives from the personal name Steven + Older Scots toun ‘farmstead, settlement’.
English: habitational name from Stevenstone (Devon), meaning ‘Stephen's farmstead’.
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