Brief Life History of Gertrude Bessie
When Gertrude Bessie Houghton was born on 8 July 1881, in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, her father, Jonah Houghton, was 42 and her mother, Maria Manter Remick, was 28. She married Truman Arthur Johnston on 6 April 1912, in Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 10 years and Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. She died on 18 April 1950, in Alameda, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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Sources (19)
- Gertrude Johnston in household of Truman Johnston, "United States Census, 1920"
- Gertrude Bessie Houghton, "California Births and Christenings, 1812-1988"
- California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Houghton or Hoghton. Most of the placenames derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some have different etymologies; for example, Little Houghton in Eccles (Lancashire), which derives from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn, and Houghton in Bigbury (Devon), which may derive from an Old English personal name Huhha + Old English tūn.
variant of Haughton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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