When Joseph Creary Adey was born on 12 December 1885, in Angus, Boone, Iowa, United States, his father, John William Adey, was 22 and his mother, Ann Creary, was 19. He married May Delina Adams on 25 August 1906, in Hocking, Monroe, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Balsam Township, Itasca, Minnesota, United States in 1940 and Roseville, Placer, California, United States in 1950. He died on 22 February 1958, in Placer, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Roseville, Placer, California, United States.
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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.
English: from the personal name Adey, a medieval pet form of Adam . Compare Addy .
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