When Lynn Kearns Knighton was born on 16 November 1884, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, George Henry Knighton, was 25 and his mother, Emma Jane Kearns, was 23. He married Euphemia Hyatt in 1904, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 26 November 1964, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English (East Midlands): habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English cniht ‘knight, young man, retainer’ (genitive plural cnihta) + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, such as Knighton (Leicestershire, Staffordshire) and Knighton on Teme (Worcestershire).
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