When Johan Erik Carstensen was born on 24 September 1885, in Søndre, Nørlyng, Viborg, Denmark, his father, Carsten Johansen Carstensen, was 25 and his mother, Ane Margrethe Pedersen, was 20. He lived in Viborg, Denmark in 1890 and Asmild, Nørlyng, Viborg, Denmark for about 5 years. He died on 5 December 1955, at the age of 70, and was buried in Redlands, San Bernardino, 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.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Carsten, Ove, Sven, Viggo. German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Egon, Ingeborg, Lorenz, Siegfried.
North German, Danish, and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Carsten . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Karstensen.
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