When Minnie Alice Deter was born on 25 June 1880, in Table Rock Judicial Township, Siskiyou, California, United States, her father, George Washington Deter, was 34 and her mother, Philena Elizabeth Burr, was 30. She married John Robertous Copeland on 30 November 1902, in Montague, Siskiyou, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 25 December 1961, in Yreka, Siskiyou, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Little Shasta Cemetery, Montague, Siskiyou, 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 law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
North German: from the personal name Detert, which is a shortened form of Dethard, from an old personal name composed of Old Saxon thioda ‘people, race’ + hard ‘strong’. Compare Teter .
Posibly also an Americanized form of German Dieter .
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