When Marie Ter Bruggen was born on 7 April 1900, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Hermanus ter Bruggen, was 42 and her mother, Annie Christency Jensen, was 30. She died on 13 September 1972, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Known as the Orpheum Theatre, the Opera House was built in 1890 because there was no play house located in the City. People came from all around to see the shows. When the name was changed to the Orpheum, different shows came about to please the viewers tastes and ideas.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Cambodian: written ទេព, from a Khmer word of Sanskrit origin, meaning ‘deity, angel’ and also denoting a cleric.
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My memory of Marie was when I was a child of eight or nine years old. My parents were Thomas and Marjorie Wheelwright Carter. We moved near her on 22nd and Adams Ave in Ogden, Utah in the 1950's. I …
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