Brief Life History of Herman Albert
When Herman Albert Gruttner was born on 14 January 1878, in Monterey, California, United States, his father, Friedrich Herman Oswald Grüttner, was 33 and his mother, Augusta Charlotte Voss, was 27. He married Bertha Mae McDaniel on 2 June 1903, in Shasta, California, United States. He lived in Redding, Shasta, California, United States for about 20 years and Monterey, Monterey, California, United States in 1920. He died in August 1959, at the age of 81.
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- Herman Gruttner, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Herman Albert Gruttner - Individual or family possessions: birth: 14 January 1878; Shasta, California, United States
- Herman A. Guettner, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt.
German:
(Silesia): occupational name for a grist miller, from Middle Low German grutte ‘grits, coarsely ground flour’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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