Lora Edith Hardenbrook

Brief Life History of Lora Edith

When Lora Edith Hardenbrook was born on 19 July 1883, in Shasta, California, United States, her father, William Francis Hardenbrook, was 31 and her mother, Mary Catherine Conlee, was 21. She married Alfred Marshall Bales on 2 September 1902, in Buckeye, Redding, Shasta, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Dallas, Polk, Oregon, United States in 1950 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1958. She died in December 1967, in California, United States, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

Alfred Marshall Bales
1877–1925
Lora Edith Hardenbrook
1883–1967
Marriage: 2 September 1902
Edith Mae Bales
1904–1975
Margaret Leona Bales
1906–1958
Nora Alfreda Bales
1910–1983
Dora A Bales
1910–

Sources (19)

  • Lora E Houck, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lora Edith Hardenbrook, "California Births and Christenings, 1812-1988"
  • Laura E Bales, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of Dutch Hardenbroek, composed of hard ‘firm (ground)’ + broek ‘low lying, swampy land’, probably related to the aristocratic family from the so named castle in the province of Utrecht.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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