Brief Life History of Ralph Otis
When Ralph Otis Erickson was born on 26 February 1899, in Kossuth, Iowa, United States, his father, Lewis Marshall Erickson, was 33 and his mother, Mary Adelaide Steadman, was 23. He married Ruby Evelyn Meyer on 23 March 1929, in Yuma, Arizona, United States. He lived in Yantai, Shandong, China in 1935 and Oceanside Township, San Diego, California, United States in 1940. He died on 25 April 1978, in California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in San Marcos Cemetery, San Marcos, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Ralph O Erickson, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ralph O Erickson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Ralph Erickson, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
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.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Thor, Nils, Lars, Sven, Lief, Anders, Lennart, Iver, Elof, Erland.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Ericsson and Eriksson , Norwegian, Danish, and North German Eriksen and Erichsen , or of any other Scandinavian or North German patronymic from a personal name derived from Old Norse Eiríkr, which is composed of ei ‘ever, always’ (or a shortened form of ein ‘one, only’) + rík ‘power’. Compare Ericksen , Ericson , and Erikson .
English (Lancashire): patronymic from the Middle English male personal name Eric (with the same etymology as 1 above) + son.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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