Brief Life History of Rose LaVina
When Rose LaVina Stiles was born on 16 October 1884, in San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, William Elmer Stiles, was 23 and her mother, Emma Jane Clews, was 22. She married Jerome Henry Downey on 20 February 1901, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Highland, San Bernardino, California, United States for about 10 years and San Francisco, California, United States in 1920. She died on 30 October 1921, at the age of 37, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Rose Downie in household of Henry Downie, "United States Census, 1920"
- Rosa L Stiles, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Rose LaVina Stiles Downey, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Stile , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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