When Maude Mabel McNeil was born on 24 June 1901, in Nevada, United States, her father, Daniel Henry McNeil, was 33 and her mother, Maudie Mabel Wimmer, was 26. She married Wilbur K Wesner on 15 October 1921, in San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Woodland, Yolo, California, United States in 1935 and Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 13 September 1992, in Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in College City, Colusa, California, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Néill, a patronymic from the personal name Niall (genitive Néill), see Neil and also Neilson, which was sometimes substituted for McNeil in Lowland Scotland.
History: The Scottish Clan McNeil claims descent from the early Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages (see O'Neill ), and the name is associated in particular with the island of Barra in the Hebrides, having been brought there from Ireland in 1049. Some members of this clan later migrated to Antrim and Derry in Ireland. A different Scottish Clan MacNeill (spelled with two l's) has a traditional ancestral home on the island of Gigha.
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