Brief Life History of Amos Burton
When Amos Burton Bell was born on 22 November 1905, in Texas, United States, his father, James Monroe Bell, was 39 and his mother, Willie Ann Courtney, was 33. He had at least 1 daughter with Eunice Wilmer Broaddus. He lived in Justice Precinct 6, Polk, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 17 March 1932, in Polk, Texas, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Corrigan, Polk, Texas, United States.
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- Amos Bell, "United States Census, 1930"
- Amos Berton Bell, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Amos B Bell in entry for Mary L Black, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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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.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from the Middle English personal name Bell. As a man's name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isabel .
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from Middle English belle ‘bell’ (Old English belle), in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town's bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
English: from Middle English bel ‘fair, fine, good’ (Old French bel ‘beautiful, fair’). See also Beal 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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