When Nancy Estella Fancher was born on 17 August 1885, in Orange Township, Lincoln, Kansas, United States, her father, Samuel Benton Fancher, was 43 and her mother, Mary Francis McCoy, was 39. She married Clyde Lafayette Wymore on 25 December 1905, in Lincoln, Lincoln, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Spencer, Clay, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 27 February 1963, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Altered form of English Fanshaw, which is perhaps a habitational name from Fanshaw Gate in Holmesfield (Derbyshire), which is recorded as le Faunchallegatehede in 1456 and Fawnchallegate in 1472. However, this place may take its name from a surname such as Faunchall or Fanshaw, and not the other way about.
In some cases possibly also an altered form of French Fanger .
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