When Sarah Mercie Clepper was born on 15 November 1884, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, David Ritner Clepper, was 44 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Chilcott, was 34. She married Frederick Stinnard Jr. on 4 September 1918, in California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Apollo, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 16 July 1960, in Auburn, Placer, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
Americanized form of German Klepper .
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