Brief Life History of Howard Emery
When Howard Emery Slack was born on 14 March 1874, in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Granville Marcellus Slack, was 37 and his mother, Caroline Scott Morse, was 34. He married Olla Josephine Sanford on 25 June 1895, in Kings, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Riverside, California, United States in 1910 and Riverside, Riverside, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 20 April 1939, at the age of 65.
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- Howard Slack, "United States Census, 1920"
- Howard Emery Slack, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
- Howard Emery Slack, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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.
1893
Historical Boundaries: 1893: Riverside, California, United States
Name Meaning
English and Dutch: nickname for an idle person, from Middle Dutch slac, Middle English slak ‘lazy, careless, slow’ (Old English slæc).
English: from Middle English slak ‘small shallow valley, hollow in the ground’ (Old Norse slakki). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a shallow valley or hollow, or habitational, for someone from any of numerous minor places so named, principally in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire.
Americanized form of Slovenian Slak 1 and perhaps also of Czech Šlak (see Slak 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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