When Nettie Flora Buck was born on 15 October 1882, in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Benton Buck, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Ann Myers, was 27. She married Walter Eugene Brown on 10 May 1900. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 12 June 1966, in Gardena, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
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English: nickname from Middle English buc(ke) ‘male goat’ (Old English bucca) or a ‘male deer’ (Old English bucc). The goat was popularly associated with lecherous behaviour and the deer with timidity and speed. The surname may also be a shortened form of longer occupational names, for example Roger le Bucmanger' ‘dealer in bucks or venison’, (Warwickshire 1221) or Walter Bucswayn perhaps ‘goatherd’ (Somerset 1327).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent beech tree, such as Peter atte Buk (Suffolk 1327), from Middle English buk ‘beech’ (from Old English bōc).
German and Dutch (Limburg): from a personal name, a short form of Burkhard (see Burkhart ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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