Brief Life History of Charles Harper
When Charles Harper Manning was born on 4 November 1878, in Fall River Mills, Shasta, California, United States, his father, Charles Harper Manning, was 44 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Dove, was 32. He had at least 1 daughter with Euphemie E King. He lived in Oakdale Judicial Township, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1940 and Oakdale, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1950. He died on 20 October 1954, in Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Chas H Manning, "United States 1950 Census"
- Charles Harper Manning, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Charles Harper Manning, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Irish (Cork and Kerry): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Mainnín ‘descendant of Mainnín’, probably an assimilated form of Mainchín, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó Maingín and Anglicized as Mangan .
English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Manning.
North German and Dutch: habitational name from a farm so named, once in possession of a certain Manno (see Mann 2) and his kin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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