Brief Life History of Alice Elizabeth
When Alice Elizabeth Peterson was born on 3 June 1898, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States, her father, Olof Peterson, was 31 and her mother, Ellen Peterson, was 26. She married Herman Walfrid Nelson on 24 June 1922, in Sacramento, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Visalia, Tulare, California, United States in 1930 and Visalia Judicial Township, Tulare, California, United States in 1940. She died on 30 August 1983, in Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Alice Nelson in household of Herman Nelson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Peterson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Alice Elizabeth Nelson, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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