Brief Life History of Frank James
When Frank James Hartle was born on 12 January 1885, in Pontiac, Livingston, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Hartle, was 41 and his mother, Eliza Ann Shaeffer, was 31. He married Elta Arinda Porter on 6 July 1904, in Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States. He lived in Pontiac Township, Livingston, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 29 January 1946, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 61.
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- Frank J Hartle, "United States Census, 1940"
- Frank James Hartle, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Frank Hartle, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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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.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
German (also Härtle): from a pet form of the various ancient Germanic compound names formed with hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’ as the first element.
English (Worcestershire and Staffordshire): habitational name from any of the three places called Harthill (Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire), named with Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + hyll ‘hill’.
Scottish: habitational name from Harthill near Inverurie (Aberdeenshire) or, less likely, from the barony of Harthill (Lanarkshire), probably from the same etymology as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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