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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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
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.
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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