Amanda Schleef

FemaleJune 1884–5 November 1967

Brief Life History of Amanda

When Amanda Schleef was born in June 1884, in California, United States, her father, John Schleef, was 40 and her mother, Mary Mina LaFrenz, was 28. She lived in Judicial Township 4, San Mateo, California, United States in 1900 and Judicial Township 2, San Mateo, California, United States in 1910. She died on 5 November 1967, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 83.

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Family Time Line

John Schleef
1844–
Mary Mina LaFrenz
1856–
August Schleef
1878–1955
Amanda Schleef
1884–1967
Jacob Schlief
1886–
Gena Schlief
1889–

Sources (5)

  • Amanda Schuleff in household of Perseus L Shuman, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Amanda Schleef, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
  • Amanda Scheef in household of Annie Pein, "United States Census, 1910"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (4)

World Events (8)

1886

Age 2

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Age 7

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

Age 22

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 Dietrich.

North German: metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German slef ‘large wooden spoon (made and used by peasants)’ for the maker of these spoons or a cook, which later came to mean ‘coarse fellow, rube’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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