When Cordelia Octavia Downs was born on 19 October 1889, in Alabama, United States, her father, Thomas Lee Allen Downs, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Ellen Gilbert, was 22. She married George Darris Hulgan on 3 December 1911, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Election Precinct 17 Graham, DeKalb, Alabama, United States for about 20 years and Election Precinct 5 Jay Bird, Marshall, Alabama, United States in 1940. She died on 14 August 1960, in Alabama, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Boaz, Marshall, Alabama, United States.
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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.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
English and Irish: variant of Downes .
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