When George Henry Winne was born on 10 August 1889, in Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States, his father, Charles H Winne, was 22 and his mother, Isabel Walsh, was 16. He married Elsie M Vanwagner on 23 October 1916, in Saratoga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in September 1979, in Rensselaer, New York, United States, at the age of 90.
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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.
Lansingburgh, to the north, became part of Troy in 1900.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Flemish: occupational name for an agricultural worker, from Middle Dutch winne ‘peasant’.
English and Scottish: variant of Winn or Wynne .
History: Pieter Winne (1609–c. 1690) was born in Ghent, Flanders, and brought his family to New Netherland (now NY) c. 1653, where he became a prominent fur trader. He and his wife Tannetje had at least twelve children.
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