Brief Life History of Jason Aldrich
When Jason Aldrich Balderston was born on 26 May 1890, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Eli Balderston, was 54 and his mother, Celestia Vilate Buckland, was 31. He married Gertrude Everard Roche on 28 December 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 29 December 1927, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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- Jason Balderston in household of Louis Lalloway, "United States Census, 1920"
- Jason A Balderston, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Jason A Balderston, "Utah, World War I Army Servicemen Records Abstracts, 1914-1918"
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1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire called Balderston(e), deriving their names from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Baldhere (composed of the elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + here ‘army’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Scottish: habitational name from Balderston in West Lothian, which has the same etymology as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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