Brief Life History of Edgar Leslie
When Edgar Leslie Taylor was born on 28 June 1886, in Fort Bridger, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, his father, Herbert Josiah Biddle Taylor, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Anson, was 21. He married Minnie Wangsgard on 20 July 1907, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Election District 6 Carter, Uinta, Wyoming, United States in 1900 and Mountain View, Uinta, Wyoming, United States for about 20 years. He died on 19 February 1944, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Fort Bridger Cemetery, Fort Bridger, Uinta, Wyoming, United States.
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- Edgar L Taylor, "United States Census, 1910"
- Edgar L Taylor, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"
- Edgar Leslie Taylor, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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