When Anna Louisa Voland was born on 4 March 1879, in Loysburg, South Woodbury Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Voland, was 30 and her mother, Catherine M Weigand, was 26. She married Carl Fredrick Bjurström on 26 December 1898, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Hovey Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Aspinwall, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 March 1950, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Some characteristic forenames: German Florian, Guenther, Kurt.
German: variant of Volland .
Americanized form of Norwegian Våland: habitational name from any of the four farmsteads so named in Agder and Rogaland, probably from Old Norse vá ‘bend, corner’ + land ‘(piece of) land, farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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