When Charles Price Deems was born on 22 April 1885, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States, his father, Rev. Dr. Edward Mark Deems, was 33 and his mother, Virginia Watkins Price, was 22. He married Ruth Babcock on 22 June 1915, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in San Rafael, Marin, California, United States in 1920 and San Francisco, California, United States in 1930. He died on 13 March 1955, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Richmond, New York, 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.
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English: derivative of Deem , meaning ‘(son or servant) of the judge’.
Dutch: case inflected variant of Daems or Daams, a patronymic from the personal name Daam from the personal name Adam . Compare Dahms .
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