Brief Life History of Elmer Baugh
When Elmer Baugh Lear was born on 13 November 1892, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, William Abraham Lea, was 26 and his mother, Mary Baugh, was 20. He married Zillah Luella Reddish on 14 September 1916, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Mount Sterling, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900 and Logan Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 28 March 1973, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Elmer B Lear, "United States 1950 Census"
- Elmer S. Lear, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Elmer B Lear, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1896 · The Logan Temple Barn
The Logan Temple Barn was built on the edge of the Logan temple property to house the animals belonging to the builders of the temple. It was one of only two stone barns built in Cache Valley. These barns became obsolete during the rise of the automobile era. The building and the land it was on was sold in 1919 and became an automobile repair shop. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1985, and is still standing today.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English ler ‘cheek, face, countenance, complexion’ (Old English hlēor), used adjectivally to mean ‘beautiful of face’.
English: variant of Layer .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Uidhir ‘son of the swarthy lad’ or ‘son of the servant of Odhar’, a byname from odhar (genitive uidhir) ‘dun-colored’, ‘weatherbeaten’. Compare McAleer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Lea to Lear
The story that I have heard is that Elmer Lear got in some kind of fight with his parents and so he added an "R" to the end of his last name "Lea" to become a "Lear"
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