When Gertrude Heap was born on 5 March 1876, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, James Heap, was 25 and her mother, Abigail Martin, was 25. She married Oscar Washington Perris Senior on 22 February 1897, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States for about 40 years. She died on 1 May 1941, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): usually a habitational name from Heap, a lost place in Bury (Lancashire), but sometimes also a topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or rock pile, from Middle English hep, heip(e) ‘heap, pile’ (Old English hēap).
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