When Stella May LeGrand was born on 4 February 1907, in Pawnee Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Charles Arthur LeGrand, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Bruns, was 22. She married Alphonse Wesley Lambrigger on 3 April 1925, in Redlands, Colusa, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Eagle Township, Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Inglewood Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 23 November 1948, in Lomita, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Angel Island served as a western entry point for hundreds of thousands of U.S. immigrants, mainly from China, from 1910 to 1940.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Some characteristic forenames: French/Haitian Pierre, Georges, Jean-Marie, Marcel, Michel, Philippe, Altagrace, Andre, Camille, Cecile, Clemence, Edouard.
French, Walloon, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and Mauritian: from (Old) French grand, grant ‘tall, large’ (see Grand ), with fused masculine definite article le, applied as a nickname for a tall man or occasionally as a distinguishing name denoting seniority rather than size. This surname is also found in Britain, where it is of Huguenot origin, and in the Flemish part of Belgium. Compare Lagrand and Legrande .
History: This surname is listed (in the form Le Grand) in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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