When Capt. William Gibson Magrath was born on 7 April 1920, in Wynyard, Big Quill No. 308, Saskatchewan, Canada, his father, William Atkinson Sadleir Magrath, was 27 and his mother, Ethel Lyle Gibson, was 24. He married Nancy Louise Gloor on 7 August 1947, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1935 and Piedmont, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. He died on 30 June 1990, in Diablo, Contra Costa, California, United States, 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.
Irish: variant of McGrath .
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