When Lorena Prothero was born on 3 March 1872, in Nevada, United States, her father, William Prothero, was 60 and her mother, Lucinda Elmira Crow, was 39. She married John Purdy on 14 February 1892, in Mendocino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Eureka, Humboldt, California, United States in 1935 and Little Lake Judicial Township, Mendocino, California, United States in 1940. She died on 5 January 1959, in Willits, Mendocino, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Laytonville, Mendocino, California, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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 landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhydderch ‘son ofRhydderch’ (see Roderick ).
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