When Walter Rullif Hood was born on 1 October 1883, in Columbus, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, his father, John Milton Hood, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Frances Winn, was 26. He married Pearl Mae Morris on 28 January 1904, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1915. He died on 5 October 1965, in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States, at the age of 82.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English hod, hood, hodde ‘hood’, either for someone who wore a hood (like the medieval folk hero Robin Hood) or who made and sold hoods. In Kent and Sussex the name may sometimes have been confused with Hoad .
English: from the Middle English personal name Hod(e), a variant of Ode or Odd with prosthetic H-; see Ott and Oates and compare Hodson 2.
English and Scottish: variant of Hudd, from the Middle English personal name Hudde, Hutte, which could represent Old English Hud(d)a or its ancient Germanic equivalent Hud(d)o, but is more likely from Anglo-Norman French Hud(de), a pet form of Hugh.
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