Brief Life History of Frank Joseph
When Frank Joseph Dreyer was born on 31 May 1883, in Millville, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States, his father, Daniel Dreyer, was 55 and his mother, Gertrude Pfeiffer, was 40. He married Alberta Ethelda Cunningham on 15 July 1913, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Alhambra, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 4 December 1967, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Monrovia, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Frank J Dreyer, "United States Census, 1930"
- Dryer, "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
- Frank Joseph Dreyer, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Erwin, Fritz, Johannes, Kurt, Baerbel, Bernhard, Christoph, Claus, Dieter, Ernst, Hedwig.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname derived from German drei ‘three’, Middle High German drī(e), with the addition of the suffix -er. This was the name of a medieval coin worth three hellers (see Heller ), and it is possible that the German surname may have been derived from this word. More probably, the nickname is derived from some other connection with the number three, too anecdotal to be even guessed at now.
North German and Scandinavian: occupational name for a turner of wood or bone, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German dreien, dregen ‘to turn’. See also Dressler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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