When Bersabe R. Soberanes was born in 1852, in Monterey, California, United States, her father, Jose Antonio Esequiel Buenaventura Soberanes, was 30 and her mother, Maria Ignatia Moreno, was 19. She married Thomas Benton Slate on 26 September 1882, in Monterey, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Monterey Judicial Township, Monterey, California, United States in 1900 and Monterey, Monterey, California, United States in 1910. She died on 29 October 1916, at the age of 64, and was buried in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States.
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The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Hispanic (mainly Mexico): probably an altered form (in plural) of Catalan Subirana, a topographic name from subirà, subirana ‘highest’, or of its Spanish plural form Subiranes. The surname Subiranes is very rare in Spain.
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