Brief Life History of Arthur Gus
When Arthur Gus Nelson was born on 3 August 1898, in Leadville, Lake, Colorado, United States, his father, Gust Nelson, was 41 and his mother, Ida Amanda Johansson, was 27. He married Alice Iretta Russell on 29 November 1924. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Supervisorial District 3, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 9 February 1966, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Arthur Nelson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Arthur Gus Nelson - Individual or family possessions: Burial record or certificate: birth-name: Arthur Gus Nelson
- Arthur G. Nelson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1899 · The Salt Palace Convention Center
The original Salt Palace was built in 1899 and It stood on 900 South, between State Street and Main Street. The Salt Palace was a frame structure covered in large pieces of rock salt, which gave it its name. The Salt Palace was destroyed by fire on August 29, 1910 and was replaced by the Majestic Hall. This Hall only lasted for a while during the remodel of the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace served as the Olympic Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake Comic Con has been held at the Salt Palace Convention Center since September 2013.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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