Brief Life History of Dudley Trainer
When Dudley Trainer Wells was born on 9 May 1860, in Basnettville, Marion, West Virginia, United States, his father, Dudley Wells, was 49 and his mother, Rachel Brown, was 46. He married Harriet Ellen Standing on 31 December 1889, in Collinston, Box Elder, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1910 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 16 November 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Dudley T Wells in household of Rachel Wells, "United States Census, 1860"
- Dudley T. Wells, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Mr. Dudley Trainer Wells, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865 · Cornerstone is Laid for the Tabernacle
In May 1865, Brigham Young placed the cornerstone for the Tabernacle building. The work was delayed because of the construction the railroad. The walls of the Tabernacle begun in 1876. The building was first used in 1881.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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