When Jay Leroy Mudd was born on 5 February 1881, in Burdette, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Spaulding Mudd, was 27 and his mother, Alice Louisa McNeil, was 18. He married Bessie Rebecca Millian on 13 February 1904, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Judicial Township 2, Merced, California, United States for about 5 years and Merced, California, United States in 1943. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 7 October 1960, in Merced, Merced, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Evergreen Memorial Park, Merced, Merced, California, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English:
from Middle English Modde, a pet form of the Latin female name Modesta (Old French Modeste). This was an exceptionally rare personal name in medieval England, and was hardly less so in medieval France, where the male use of Old French Modeste (from Latin Modestus) is better evidenced but quite uncommon.
from Middle English Mod(de), Mud(de), pet forms of Old English or ancient Germanic male personal names beginning with Mōd- ‘courage’, though these were also rare.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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