When George Wilson Doster was born on 9 May 1902, in Panther, Lane, Oregon, United States, his father, James Wilson Doster, was 58 and his mother, Nancy Ellen Davidson, was 36. He married Edna Alta Clanton on 6 October 1923, in Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in O'Neal Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States for about 10 years and Pacific Grove, Monterey, California, United States in 1950. He died on 8 June 1989, in California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Seaside, Monterey, California, United States.
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German doste, toste ‘wild thyme, shrub, bouquet’ (see Dost ), hence either an occupational name for a herbalist or a topographic name, especially for someone whose land abutted an uncultivated piece of land. It is also found in France (Lorraine), but it is very rare there.
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