When Ethel Lee Crosby was born on 4 May 1888, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, her father, Charles Simon Crosby, was 39 and her mother, Rufina Augusta Porter, was 33. She married Erval Jackson Newcomer on 17 August 1913, in Santa Clara, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Summitview, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1920 and Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 January 1943, in Union Gap, Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Terrace Heights Memorial Park, Yakima, Yakima, Washington, 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.
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.
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 any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
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