When Mary E Helm was born on 11 May 1874, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, her father, William Helm, was 37 and her mother, Francis "Fannie" Sawyer Newman, was 33. She married Dr. James Lawrence Maupin Sr. on 6 November 1895, in Fresno, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Fresno, California, United States in 1880 and San Francisco, California, United States in 1880. She died on 6 October 1942, in Reedley, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English (Lancashire): from Old English helm ‘protection, covering’ (in later northern English dialects, ‘cattle shelter, barn’). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Helme in Meltham (Yorkshire).
English: variant of Elm with prosthetic H-.
German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch helm.
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