Dora May (Wadeson) Willox (1899 - 1938)

Dora's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Willox family tree.

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Dora's Parents

Edward Downson Wadeson

Mary Ann (Reeves) Wadeson

Arthur William Wadeson Amy Esther (Wadeson) Stanborough Dora May (Wadeson) Willox

Reginald Thomas Wadeson Edward Ernest Wadeson

Parents:

Edward Downson Wadeson

1867 - Jul 21, 1943

Mary Ann (Reeves) Wadeson

1874 - Dec 7, 1951

Siblings:

Reginald Thomas Wadeson

1897 - Dec 21, 1950

Arthur William Wadeson

Unknown - Unknown

Edward Ernest Wadeson

1902 - Jul 7, 1955

Amy Esther (Wadeson) Stanborough

1905 - 1932

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Dora May (Wadeson) Willox & Frederick Albert Willox

Dora May (Wadeson) Willox

Frederick Albert Willox

Spouse:

Frederick Albert Willox

1895 - 1980

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In 1899, in the year that Dora May (Wadeson) Willox was born, on February 14th, the first voting machines were approved by Congress for use in federal elections. Several states were already using voting machines in their elections and the Federal government was finally convinced of their safety and accuracy.

In 1904, at the age of merely 5 years old, Dora was alive when the United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone. Now an unincorporated territory of the U.S., the Canal Zone had been previously held by the French, who were constructing a canal. The U.S. took over the construction of the Panama Canal and it was finally finished in 1914, when it was opened to commercial shipping. The United States held the Canal Zone until 1979.

In 1912, she was only 13 years old when the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.

In 1929, at the age of 30 years old, Dora was alive when American Samoa officially became a U.S. territory. Although a part of the United States since 1900, the Ratification Act of 1929 vested "all civil, judicial, and military powers in the President of the United States of America".

In 1938, in the year of Dora May (Wadeson) Willox's passing, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."