When Carl D. Gast was born on 25 July 1885, in Prospect, Marion, Ohio, United States, his father, Samuel H. Gast, was 34 and his mother, Louise Charlotte Herr, was 25. He married Shirley B. Roberts on 29 August 1909, in Marion, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Monrovia, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Monrovia Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 27 May 1959, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Monrovia, 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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Fritz, Dieter, Elfriede, Gerhardt, Hertha, Kurt, Lorenz, Lothar.
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a stranger or newcomer to a community, Middle High German gast ‘guest, foreigner, stranger’, German Gast. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
German and Swiss German: from a short form of a personal name Gastolf or Arbogast .
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