When Thomas Virgil Fortner was born on 21 November 1902, in Illinois, United States, his father, Thomas James Fortner, was 34 and his mother, Zualia Olivia Bower, was 29. He lived in Blendon Township, Davison, South Dakota, United States for about 10 years. He died on 12 January 1926, in South Dakota, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in Mitchell, Davison, South Dakota, United States.
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
German: variant (also Förtner) or Americanized form of Pförtner, an occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper in a great house, castle, or monastery, Middle High German phortenaere (from Latin porta ‘door, gate’). Compare English Porter .
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