When Kenneth Leroy Snell was born on 5 March 1922, in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, his father, Donald Leroy Snell, was 23 and his mother, Hazel Rhoda Myers, was 22. He married Darline Jane Woods on 7 August 1943, in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 16 January 1996, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Placerville Union Cemetery, Placerville, El Dorado, California, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
English: nickname for a quick, lively, or courageous person, from Middle English snel(l) ‘swift, vivacious, brisk, bold’ (Old English snel(l), Old Norse snjallr). See also Sneller , Snelling .
English: from the Middle English personal name Snel(l) (Old English Snell, Old Norse Snjallr, with the same origins as the nickname above).
Americanized form of German Schnell ‘quick’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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