Brief Life History of Frank Sumner
When Frank Sumner Thornton was born on 18 October 1883, in Sebastopol, Trinity, California, United States, his father, John Milon Thornton, was 33 and his mother, Anna Laura Peatross Thornton, was 20. He married Edna Ermina Early on 11 August 1911, in Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Dent Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States for about 40 years. He died on 16 March 1966, in Escalon, San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Manteca, San Joaquin, California, United States.
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- F S Thornton, "United States Census, 1920"
- Frank Sumner Thorton, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Frank Sumner Thornton, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The placename is most frequent in northern England, especially Yorkshire, where there are at least 16 possible sources for the surname.
Irish: Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see Skehan ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see Drennan ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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