When Millicent Pearl Vincent was born on 8 January 1884, in Ord, Valley, Nebraska, United States, her father, Horace C. Vincent, was 36 and her mother, Alice Amelia Graves, was 30. She married Arthur Simeon Dye on 26 November 1903, in Ord, Valley, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Yale Township, Valley, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 18 December 1988, in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California, United States, at the age of 104.
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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.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and Spanish: from the personal name Vincent, Latin Vincentius, a derivative of vincens, genitive vincentis, present participle of vincere ‘to conquer’. The name was borne by a 3rd-century Spanish martyr widely venerated in the Middle Ages and by a 5th-century monk and writer of Lérins, as well as various other early Christian saints.
Irish: the English surname (see 1 above) has been established in the south of Ireland since the 17th century, and has also been adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Dhuibhinse ‘son of the dark man of the island’.
History: The surname Vincent of French origin (see 1 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.
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