When Charles Horace Alvord was born on 21 July 1890, in Rantoul, Franklin, Kansas, United States, his father, Alberne Foster Alvord, was 40 and his mother, Perdita Jane Crane, was 29. He married Ruth Elizabeth Violet Bellamy on 15 May 1948, in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Huntsville, Walker, Texas, United States in 1935 and Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 17 October 1949, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas, United States.
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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.
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.
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 (southwestern): variant of Alford 1; the spelling reflects the southwestern English dialect pronunciation.
History: This surname was brought to North America by Alexander Alvord, who came from Devon or Somerset to Windsor, CT, c. 1645. He had many prominent descendants.
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