When Leland Jay VandyBogurt was born on 7 July 1885, in Butler Township, Branch, Michigan, United States, his father, Charles Marvin VandyBogart, was 23 and his mother, Roxanna Dickinson, was 20. He married Flossie V. Hyres on 14 October 1909, in Branch, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Butler, Butler Township, Branch, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Tekonsha, Tekonsha Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 September 1968, in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Tekonsha, Tekonsha Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
"The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit ""water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."" H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, ""TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII""."
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name for someone who lived by a patch of fallow land, from Middle English lay, ley ‘fallow’ + land ‘land’. The surname is well established in the United States. It was borne by the humorous writer Charles Leland ( 1824–1903 ), author of The Breitmann Ballads, and it is also the name of a city in Mississippi.
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Photo at left is with his first grandson Jack Lynn Vandy Bogurt in the early 1940s. Photo at right looks like a graduation photo (high school?).
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