When Oscar Joseph Reiner was born on 30 December 1921, in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States, his father, Oscar Joseph Reiner Sr, was 29 and his mother, Freelove Grisham, was 30. He married Elizabeth Claire Slatter in Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, California, United States. He lived in Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, California, United States in 1930 and Judicial Township 7, Santa Barbara, California, United States in 1940. He died on 7 December 1992, at the age of 70.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
German: from a personal name formed with the ancient Germanic elements ragin ‘counsel’ + hari, heri ‘army’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace).
German: topographic name for someone living at the edge of a field or wood, from Middle High German rein ‘edge, embankment’.
Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Rajner or Slovenian Rajnar: from a personal name of German origin (see 1 above). Compare Rainer 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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