When Elwyn Donald Post was born on 30 November 1899, in Shelby, Richland, Ohio, United States, his father, Oliver Clyde Post, was 22 and his mother, Anna Mary Cumberworth, was 24. He married Virginia Rodney Jackson in 1925, in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in West Point, Highlands, Orange, New York, United States in 1935 and District 1104, Chattahoochee, Georgia, United States in 1940. He died on 26 September 1961, in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in San Bruno, San Mateo, California, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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