When Thomas Emmert Emmertson was born on 30 March 1886, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Jens Peter Emmertson, was 29 and his mother, Inger Marie Thomassen, was 28. He married Cora Adeline Reiser on 4 November 1916, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Maywood, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1909. He died on 21 July 1948, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 62.
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Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
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.
English: variant of Emerson .
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