Brief Life History of Marion Luther
When Marion Luther Holland was born on 24 July 1904, in Newville, Henry, Alabama, United States, his father, Francis Marion Holland, was 38 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Kirkland, was 32. He married Winnie Laura Holloman on 15 March 1924, in Geneva, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Samson, Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Geneva, Geneva, Alabama, United States for about 1 years. He died on 24 December 1985, in Dothan, Houston, Alabama, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Travelers Rest Cemetery, Samson, Geneva, Alabama, United States.
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- Marion L Holland, "United States 1950 Census"
- Marion L Holland, "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Marion L Holland, "BillionGraves Index"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
1906 · Licencing Butchers
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Holland, a province of the Netherlands.
English: habitational name from Downholland or Upholland (Lancashire), Hulland (Derbyshire), the Parts of Holland, one of the three administrative subdivisions of Lincolnshire, any of the four places called Hoyland (southern Yorkshire), and possibly Great and Little Holland (Essex). The placenames all derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + land ‘land’.
English: habitational name either from Hoeland (Farm) in Bury (Sussex), or from Holland's Barn in Albourne (Sussex). The placename in Bury has the same etymology as in 1 above, while the placename in Albourne may derive from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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