Brief Life History of Ida
When Ida Smithson was born on 20 October 1878, in Ely, White Pine, Nevada, United States, her father, John Levi Smithson, was 21 and her mother, Sabina Ann Nicoll, was 23. She married William Alfred Moyle on 26 November 1902, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cahuenga, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, California, United States in 1939. She died on 6 October 1972, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 93.
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- Ida S Moyle, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ida S Moyle, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Ida Smithson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): from Middle English smith ‘smith’ + -son, for a son of a smith.
Irish (Dublin) and Scottish: in Scotland and Ireland, sometimes adopted for Mac Gobhann, Mac a'ghobhainn ‘son of the smith’ (see McGowan ).
History: The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC was founded (1846) with a bequest from the English chemist and mineralogist James Smithson (1765–1829). He was born James Lewes Macie, the illegitimate son of Hugh Smithson Percy, Duke of Northumberland. His mother, Elizabeth Macie, a widow, was a direct descendant of Henry VIII; through her family James Smithson inherited a fortune.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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