When Rudolph Lewis Sperling was born on 6 April 1898, in Independence, Polk, Oregon, United States, his father, Charles Lewis Sperling, was 29 and his mother, Anna Nancy Gay, was 30. He lived in Wilbur, Douglas, Oregon, United States for about 11 years and San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1915. He died on 3 March 1956, in Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, 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.
German: nickname from a diminutive of Middle High German spar(e) ‘sparrow’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Sperling ‘sparrow’.
English (Middlesex): variant of Sparling .
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