When Glen Dewey Keifer was born on 5 May 1898, in Hanover Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, David Leslie Keifer, was 42 and his mother, Catherine Scott, was 34. He married Mary Lois Springer in 1929. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Benton, Mono, California, United States in 1930. In 1944, at the age of 46, his occupation is listed as shovel-operator in Mono, California, United States. He died on 17 December 1990, in Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Vicksburg Cemetery, Vicksburg, La Paz, Arizona, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Altered form of German Kiefer .
German: nickname for someone who was quarrelsome, from an agent of Middle High German kīben, kīven ‘to quarrel’, German keifen.
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