When Lillian Macy Joslin was born on 17 February 1890, in Fairview, Jones, Iowa, United States, her father, Thurston Joslin, was 61 and her mother, Polly Agnes Warden, was 42. She married Harry Marcus Newhard on 7 December 1908, in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa, United States. She lived in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States for about 20 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 6 August 1965, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
English (of Norman origin):
from the Old French personal name Goscelin, Gosselin, Joscelin, from ancient Germanic Goz(e)lin, a diminutive of a short form of compound names based on the element goz (from gaut, an ethnic name meaning ‘Geat’ or ‘Goth’; see Goss ).
alternatively, perhaps a diminutive of the Old French personal name Josse (Old Breton Judoc); see Joyce .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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