When George Frank Colston was born on 25 May 1877, in Missouri, United States, his father, Charles E. Colston, was 28 and his mother, Clara E. Encell, was 22. He married Albertine J Johnson on 21 November 1900, in Roane, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 23 January 1954, in Moorpark, Ventura, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Scottish and English: from a Middle English personal name, Colstan, which is probably from Old Norse Kolsteinn, composed of the elements kol ‘charcoal’ + steinn ‘stone’. This name has probably been confused with Coulson .
English: habitational name from Colston Basset in Nottinghamshire, or the nearby Carcolston, both of which seem to have originally been named from the Old Norse personal name Kolr + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. The first syllable of Car Colson was originally the defining prefix kirk ‘church’.
English: habitational name from Coulston in Wiltshire, which is named with the genitive case of an Old English personal name Cufel (diminutive of Cufa) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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