Doug Summers

Maleabout 1881–1900

Brief Life History of Doug

Doug Summers was born about 1881, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. He married Ida Rebecca Holmes about 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died in 1900, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 20.

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Doug Summers
1881–1900
Ida Rebecca Holmes
1885–1949

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  • Pedigree Resource File name: Doug /Summers/

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World Events (3)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Age 0

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

Age 1

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1896 · Utah Becomes a State

Age 15

After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Summer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer ).

Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a personal name meaning ‘soft, gentle, innocent’, due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.

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

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