Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Boland was born on 20 May 1885, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. She married William Murray Apgar on 20 May 1913, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Mason Township, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 November 1977, in California, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Margaret B Apgar in household of William M Apgar, "United States Census, 1930"
- Margaret Boland, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Margaret Boland in entry for William M Apgar, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
1910 · Angel Island Serves Immigrants
Angel Island served as a western entry point for hundreds of thousands of U.S. immigrants, mainly from China, from 1910 to 1940.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aidan, Bridie, Caitlin, Donal, Finbar, Maeve.
English: habitational name from the district of Bowland (Forest) in North Yorkshire and Lancashire. Robert of Bowland was a member of the garrison of Stirling castle in Scotland in 1339–40, and was presumably a Yorkshireman or a Lancastrian.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an old Irish name of uncertain origin. See Bolan 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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