When Raymond Lawrence Amsel Shane was born on 19 September 1896, in Emeryville, Alameda, California, United States, his father, Samuel J. Shane, was 46 and his mother, Gertrude McGue, was 22. He married Ethel Carmel Breckwoldt on 16 June 1919, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1910 and San Francisco, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 April 1987, in Napa, California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Napa, Napa, California, United States.
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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.
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.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Irish: shortened form of McShane , an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Seáin ‘son of John’.
Americanized form of Jewish Schein or Shain .
Americanized form of German Schön (see Schoen ).
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