When Francis Hobart Driscoll was born on 1 October 1905, in Utica, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, James W Driscoll Sr, was 34 and his mother, Susan I. Tuttle, was 28. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Grace Mildred Hamblin. He lived in Forestport, Oneida, New York, United States in 1910 and Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1930. He died on 14 June 1960, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Donovan, Brendan, John Patrick.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidirsceóil ‘descendant of the messenger’, from eidirsceól ‘go-between, interpreter, intermediary, news bearer’ (a compound of eidir ‘between’ + scéal ‘story, news’). Bearers of this Irish surname claim descent from a single 10th-century ancestor.
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