When Ralph Thomas Ferrin was born on 27 January 1900, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, his father, Frank W. Ferrin, was 23 and his mother, Anna Wilhelmina Hanson, was 25. He married Vera Lorina Johnson on 24 December 1921. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 22 June 1976, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Sunset and Kapala Glodek Funeral Home and Sunset Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Irish: variant of Ferron 3 or a shortened form of McFerrin . Also compare with Farren .
English: variant of Ferron .
Spanish (Ferrín): from a derivative of ferro ‘iron’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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