Dorothy Jean Wilkin

Female26 November 1901–1991

Brief Life History of Dorothy Jean

When Dorothy Jean Wilkin was born on 26 November 1901, in Farmington, San Juan, New Mexico, United States, her father, Joseph Robert Wilkin, was 42 and her mother, Juniata Kate Markley, was 30. She lived in Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1910. She died in 1991, in Green Valley, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 90.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Robert Wilkin
1859–1945
Juniata Kate Markley
1871–1965
Robert David Wilkin
1900–1980
Dorothy Jean Wilkin
1901–1991
Joseph Wilkin
1903–1903
Louise Elizabeth Wilkin
1907–2004
Lillian Estelle Wilkin
1909–1975

Sources (3)

  • Dorothy Wilkin in household of Joseph R Wilkin, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Dorothy Jean Wilkin - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Dorothy Jean Wilkin
  • Legacy NFS Source: Dorothy Jean Wilkin - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Dorothy Jean Wilkin

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World Events (8)

1902 · So Much Farm Land

Age 1

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

1908 · Utah's First National Monument

Age 7

Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.

1927

Age 26

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Wilkin, a pet form of William introduced to England and Scotland by Flemings and Picards after the Norman Conquest.

North German: variant of Wilken .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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