Brief Life History of Alice Bess
When Alice Bess Smith was born on 21 June 1889, in Iowa, United States, her father, Isaac Peter Smith, was 40 and her mother, Rosetta "Rosa" Cramer, was 32. She married Frank Blaine Nordyke about 1912, in Trenton, Grundy, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Washington Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 October 1957, in Trenton, Grundy, Missouri, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Trenton, Grundy, Missouri, United States.
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- Alice Smith in household of Isaac P Smith, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alice Beth Smith - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Alice Beth Smith
- Alice Smith Nordyke, "Find A Grave Index"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
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.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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