When Moses Barlow Grissom was born on 3 January 1870, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Wiley Coleman Grissom, was 25 and his mother, Laurana Combs Hestand, was 25. He married Elizabeth Fredricks in 1900, in California, United States. He lived in Newman, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1910 and Red Bluff Judicial Township, Tehama, California, United States in 1940. He died on 17 April 1944, in Red Bluff, Tehama, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Red Bluff, Tehama, California, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Hostilities between Modoc Indians and white settlers resulted in the Modoc War during 1872-1873. A Modoc band of nearly 200 people, led by Captain Jack Kintpuash, was fleeing a forced relocation to a reservation occupied by their enemies, the Klamaths. The band had returned to their former land on Lost River, which now had white settlers occupying the area. The conflict erupted on November 29, 1872, when 40 troops were sent to move the Modocs back to the reservation. An argument erupted and shots were fired. Several were killed and the Modocs fled to “The Stronghold,” a large, cavernous lava bed. The holdout went on for months with several clashes. On April 11, 1873, General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas were killed by the Modocs during a negotiation. The Modocs lacked resources and supplies and eventually surrendered on July 4. In total, 2 Modocs and 71 enlisted military men lost their lives.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
English (Middlesex): variant of Grissin, from Old French grison ‘gray’. This surname is now extinct in Britain.
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