When Ruth Emmeline Delamater was born on 1 December 1899, in Plymouth, Amador, California, United States, her father, Samuel Henry Delamater, was 42 and her mother, Berthena Melissa Phillips, was 33. She married Roy Lee Hinton on 26 September 1916, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Sacramento Judicial Township, Sacramento, California, United States in 1940 and Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States in 1947. She died on 21 December 1970, in West Sacramento, Yolo, California, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Fellows, Kern, California, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Altered form, with fused preposition de ‘of’, of French Lemaitre . Compare Delamarter and Delameter .
History: The Delamaters (and e.g. the Delameters) trace their origin to Claude Le Maître, a Huguenot from France, who lived in New Amsterdam in New Netherland (now New York City, NY) by 1652. He is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (as Claude Le Maître or Le Maistre or Delameter) and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America (as Claude de la Maistre).
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