When Laura Mabel Blackstock was born on 7 August 1880, in Ventura, California, United States, her father, Nehemiah Blackstock, was 33 and her mother, Abigail Smith, was 32. She married Oliver Benjamin Dunn in 1906, in California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Los Angeles Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 9 April 1968, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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.
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 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Scottish: believed to be from a lost or unidentified minor place in Scotland, probably named from Middle English blak(e) ‘black, dark’ + stok ‘stump, stock’.
English: perhaps also occasionally from a place so called in England, such as Blackstock Farm in Hellingly (Sussex), named with Old English blæc ‘black, dark’ + stoc ‘stump, stock’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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