Brief Life History of Esther L
When Esther L Baldwin was born on 17 June 1891, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, her father, Lindley Jose Baldwin, was 26 and her mother, Mary Alminda Drake, was 21. She married Elmer Bayrd Geiser on 12 January 1915, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Washington Township, Allen, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1920. She died on 3 November 1957, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 66.
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- Esther Baldwin in household of Lindly J Baldwin, "United States Census, 1910"
- Esther Geiser, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Esther L Baldwin, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
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.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.
Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.
History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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