When John Thomas Shields was born on 7 May 1852, in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States, his father, John Fenton Shields, was 29 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Howell, was 26. He lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1870 and Stockton, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 20 December 1880, in Salem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States
The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: variant of Shield 1 (and perhaps occasionally 2, 3, and 4) with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived in or near some huts, or habitational, from a place so named, such as North Shields (Northumberland) and South Shields (Durham), though these are unlikely to be the main sources of the surname.
Irish: shortened form of O'Shields , an alternative Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail; see Shiel .
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