Brief Life History of Franklin
When Franklin Phillips was born in May 1877, in California, United States, his father, Houston Phillips, was 30 and his mother, Georgiana Musick, was 23. He married Rosa Nelle Mankins on 24 December 1897, in Huasna, San Luis Obispo, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in San Simeon, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1880. In 1940, at the age of 63, his occupation is listed as blacksmith in gold mine in Grass Valley, Nevada, California, United States. He died on 12 June 1962, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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- Frank Phillips, "United States Census, 1940"
- Frank Phillips, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Frank Phillips in entry for Thomas Albert Anderson and Mae S. Phillips, "California County Marriages, 1843-1918"
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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
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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