When Elsie Lorraine McReynolds was born on 5 April 1913, in Denton, Denton, Texas, United States, her father, Leonard Wesley McReynolds, was 35 and her mother, Lora Elna Thomason, was 25. She married Albert Oscar Wehrle on 2 March 1971, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 23 March 1993, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Satilla was the first Deepwater Steamship to arrive at the port of Houston. This accomplishment successfully established a steamboat service between Houston and New York City.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Raghnaill, a patronymic from the personal name Raghnall, derived from a Norse personal name of the same origin as Reynold . The final -s is extraneous.
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