When Angela Catherina Consiglieri was born on 9 January 1878, in Favale di Malvaro, Genoa, Italy, her father, Giovanni Antonio Consiglieri, was 34 and her mother, Rosa Barbagelata, was 23. She married Pietro Antonio Porcaro on 24 November 1918, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. She lived in East Chicago, North Township, Lake, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. She died on 17 August 1965, in Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, 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.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
From Church Latin, a feminine form of the boy's name Angelus ( see Angel ). The older feminine form Angelis has been completely superseded by Angela, which increased greatly in popularity in Britain and America from the 18th century onwards.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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