When John Gerald Sproat was born in February 1886, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Christopher Wilson Sproat, was 26 and his mother, Alverette Brown, was 25. He married Grace Florence Elwell on 5 June 1919, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in San Francisco, California, United States in 1920 and San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 22 May 1936, in Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States.
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This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: variant of Sprott .
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