Brief Life History of Nita Arneta
When Nita Arneta Welsh was born on 31 October 1887, in Reading, Lyon, Kansas, United States, her father, William Marshall Welsh, was 37 and her mother, Olla Venora Morgan, was 18. She married Charles Nathan Dunmire on 16 June 1909, in Reading, Lyon, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Sausalito, Marin, California, United States in 1930 and Sausalito Judicial Township, Marin, California, United States in 1940. She died on 16 July 1957, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Nita A Welsh in household of Marshall Welsh, "United States Census, 1900"
- Nita Arneta Dunmire, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Nita Arneta Dunmire, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English welshe (Old English wēalisc, wēlisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’, for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace .
Americanized form of German Welsch .
Americanized form of Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) Voloshin or its Polish variant Wołoszyn (see Woloszyn ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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