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Addie Garwood Estes
Addie Garwood Estes (1868 – November 2, 1928) was an American temperance activist. Since early adulthood, she worked for the Temperance movement in the United States, temperance movement and affiliated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), serving as president of the Northern California chapter from 1921 until her death in 1928. Early life and education Her parents were James Marshall and Mary Josephine (Thomas) Garwood. James Marshall Garwood, a native of Tennessee, was captain of a wagon train that crossed the Great Plains to California in 1858. He soon went back east and in 1860, led another wagon train to California. In the same year came Mary Josephine Thomas. They were married at Stockton, California, in 1862. James Marshall Garwood was a pioneer rancher near Collegeville, San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County. He retired some years before his death in 1900, while his wife died in 1898. Mr. Garwood was one of the supporters of the old Presbyte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Flu
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it the deadliest pandemic in history. The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer. Limited historical epidemiological data make the pandemic' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temperance Activists From California
Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture * Temperance (group), Canadian dance-pop musical group * Temperance (Tarot card), Major Arcana Tarot card *''Temperance'', album by Astrud Gilberto *Temperance Brennan, fictional character by Kathy Reichs **Temperance "Bones" Brennan, fictional character of TV series ''Bones'' *Temperance (Italian band), Italian melodic metal group ** ''Temperance'' (album), 2014 debut album by the Italian band Places United States *Temperance, Georgia, an unincorporated community *Temperance Bell, Georgia, an unincorporated community *Temperance, Michigan, a community *Temperance Hall, Tennessee, a small community *Temperance Island, Lake Michigan *Temperance River, Minnesota Other places * Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Canada * Temperance Town, Cardiff, Wales See also * Temperance b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Deaths
Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. * January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family. * January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears. February * February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory. * February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York. * February 11 – February 19, 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 Births
Events January * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the ''Meiji Restoration'', his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains, and against the supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate, triggering the Boshin War. * January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside. * January 7 – The Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock. * January 9 – Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship '' Hougoumont'' in Western Australia, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Pacific Medical Center
Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) is a general medical/surgical and teaching hospital in San Francisco, California. It was created by a merger of some of the city's longest established hospitals and currently operates three acute care campuses. Its primary campuses in San Francisco are the Van Ness Campus in The Tenderloin, the Davies Campus in Duboce Triangle, and the Mission Bernal Campus in the Mission District. While it is a privately funded entity, CPMC has strong academic ties to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford University Medical Center, as well as the Geisel School of Medicine of Dartmouth College. Locations As of 2020, CPMC operates three acute care hospitals: * Davies Campus (Castro & Duboce Streets, formerly Franklin Hospital) * Mission Bernal Campus (3555 Cesar Chavez Street), which opened in 2018 replacing St. Luke's *Van Ness Campus (1101 Van Ness Ave), which opened in 2019 with 274 beds With the opening of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Federation Of Republican Women
The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) is a political action committee that serves as the women's wing of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in the United States. It was founded in 1938 by Marion Martin (Maine politician), Marion Martin (1901-1987), who was the assistant chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). The NFRW is recognized as one of the largest grassroots political organizations in the country, with thousands of members spread across local clubs nationwide. According to the NFRW, its mission is to "empower women from all backgrounds in the political process and provide a forum for women to serve as leaders in political, government, and civic arenas."Burrell, B., & Bystrom, D. G. (Eds.). (2018). ''Encyclopedia of women as voters, candidates, and office holders'' (Vols. 1-2, pp. 337-338). ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781610699747. History Background Before women were granted the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include Voter registration, registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and advocating for Voting rights in the United States, voting rights. In addition, the LWV works with partners for specific campaigns including support for Campaign finance reform in the United States, campaign finance reform, women's rights, universal health care, health care reform and gun control. The League was founded as the successor to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which had led the nationwide fight for Women's suffrage in the United States, women's suffrage. The initial goals of the League were to educate women to take part in the political process and to push forward legislation of interest to women. As a nonpartisan organization, an important part of its role in American politics has been to register and inform voter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border. Cleveland is the most populous city on Lake Erie, the second-most populous city in Ohio, and the 53rd-most populous city in the U.S. with a population of 372,624 in 2020. The city anchors the Cleveland metropolitan area, the 33rd-largest in the U.S. at 2.18 million residents, as well as the larger Cleveland– Akron– Canton combined statistical area with 3.63 million residents. Cleveland was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve in modern-day Northeast Ohio by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named. The city's location on the river and the lake shore allowed it to grow into a major commercial and industrial metropolis by the late 19th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Republican National Convention
The 1924 Republican National Convention was held in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Public Auditorium, from June 10 to 12. Incumbent President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for a full term and went on to win the general election. The convention nominated former Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden for vice president on the second ballot, but he declined the nomination. The convention then selected Charles G. Dawes. Also considered for the nomination was Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, a future vice president. Delegates For this convention the method of allocating delegates changed in order to reduce the overrepresentation of the South. This effort proved only partly successful as Southern delegates proved to be more overrepresented than they had been in 1916 or 1920, though they were not as overrepresented as they had been in 1912 and earlier. There were 120 female delegates, 11% of the total. The Republican National Committee approved a rule providing for a national committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, California, Oakland and Emeryville, California, Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany, California, Albany and the Unincorporated area, unincorporated community of Kensington, California, Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County, California, Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321. Berkeley is home to the oldest campus in the University of California, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the university. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addie Garwood Estes (The Modesto Bee, 1922)
Addie Garwood Estes (1868 – November 2, 1928) was an American temperance activist. Since early adulthood, she worked for the temperance movement and affiliated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), serving as president of the Northern California chapter from 1921 until her death in 1928. Early life and education Her parents were James Marshall and Mary Josephine (Thomas) Garwood. James Marshall Garwood, a native of Tennessee, was captain of a wagon train that crossed the Great Plains to California in 1858. He soon went back east and in 1860, led another wagon train to California. In the same year came Mary Josephine Thomas. They were married at Stockton, California, in 1862. James Marshall Garwood was a pioneer rancher near Collegeville, San Joaquin County. He retired some years before his death in 1900, while his wife died in 1898. Mr. Garwood was one of the supporters of the old Presbyterian College at Collegeville, California. Addie Garwood was born at Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
