When Clara Louisa Pearson was born on 23 April 1877, in Jonesboro, Mill Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, her father, John Rand Pearson, was 45 and her mother, Prudence Pemberton, was 39. She married William Russell Stroud on 13 February 1896, in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Mulino, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Portland City Election Precinct 171, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 25 December 1958, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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The Great Gale of 1880 was a severe snow and wind storm that devastated parts of Oregon and Washington on January 9, 1880. The extratropical cyclone caused tides to rise seven feet, gale force winds, and snow accumulations of up to 18 inches.
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Per(e) or Piers (see Pear and Pierce ) + son. The surname is also quite common in Ireland, where it has been established for many centuries. Compare Peerson .
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames.
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