Brief Life History of Minnie Ann
When Minnie Ann Knell was born on 30 September 1869, in Pinto, Washington, Utah, United States, her father, Benjamin Knell, was 35 and her mother, Ann Green, was 33. She married Joseph Eldridge Robinson on 21 December 1891, in St. George Utah Temple, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States in 1930. She died on 25 April 1953, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Minnie Robinson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Minnie Ann Knell Robinsonn, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Miss Minnie A Knell, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Kane, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Kane, Utah, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English (Kent): topographic name from Middle English knelle, knille ‘knoll, hill, hilltop’ (Old English cnyll(e)), for someone who lived at or near a knoll, or from a place so named, such as Knell House in Goring (Sussex). Compare Knill , Knoll .
South German: from Middle High German knellen ‘to cause to explode, snap one's fingers’, hence a nickname for a noisy, loud-mouthed person, or in Swabia and Bavaria for someone who cursed a lot.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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