Brief Life History of Mabel
When Mabel Porteous was born on 4 May 1886, in West Point, Calaveras, California, United States, her father, John B Porteous, was 50 and her mother, Martha Park, was 41. She married Andrew Carlton Gillick on 23 September 1918, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States. She lived in Volcano, Amador, California, United States in 1930 and Judicial Township 3, Amador, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 June 1969, in Amador, California, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Mabel Gellick in household of Andrew C Gellick, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mabel Porteous, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Mabel Gillick, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
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.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
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.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots port(e)hors, portas, porte(i)s, portos, portus, porthous, porteus, portewas ‘portable breviary, prayer book’. It is a borrowing of Old French porte-hors, Anglo-Norman French porteose, porteho(r)s, port(h)eus, literally something ‘carried out of doors’. The surname may have been given to someone who habitually carried such a book, or for a scribe employed to write them. In modern times it is chiefly a Scottish surname, which probably accounts for its presence in northern England, but the name is also well evidenced in southeastern England in the medieval period and in northern Lincolnshire since the 17th century. The Scottish surname became established in Ireland by the mid 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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