Brief Life History of Olive Arvetta
When Olive Arvetta Altman was born on 24 September 1881, in Lebanon, Smith, Kansas, United States, her father, Oscar Elwood Shaffer, was 21 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Wright, was 19. She married Robert Oliver Tapp on 23 December 1923. She lived in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920 and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 27 July 1946, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 64.
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- Arvetta O Altman, "United States Census, 1920"
- Olive Arvetta Tapp, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Olive Arvetta Altman, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Altmann , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. This form of the surname is also found in Britain, Czechia, and some other European countries.
History: Philip Altman, a Jew from Bavaria, arrived in New York c. 1835. He had numerous prominent descendants.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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