Brief Life History of Chalapha George
When Chalapha George Goss Jr was born on 25 June 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Chalapha George Goss Sr, was 35 and his mother, Anna Jane Huston, was 26. He married Mary Lyle Currie on 19 July 1924, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 47 years. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 25 November 1953, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Chalapha Goss, "United States 1950 Census"
- Chalapha George Goss, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
- Chalapha Geo. Goss, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English, German, and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gozzo, Gauz (Middle English, Old French Gosse), short forms of compound names based on the element goz (from gaut, an ethnic name meaning ‘Geat’ or ‘Goth’), rarely also on the element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’. In Middle English Gosse was frequently used as a short form of the double diminutive Goscelin (see Joslin ). Geats (Old English gēatas, Old Scandinavian gautar) were the Scandinavian people formerly occupying modern Götaland in Sweden, their name being closely related to that of the Goths (Old English gotan, Old Scandinavian gotar). Both ethnic names are presumably derived from a Proto-Germanic word meaning ‘to pour’. The relationship between Geats and Goths is controversial and in the name elements the two ethnicities are not always distinguishable. This surname is rare in France, where the common form is Gosse .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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· Chalapha George Goss Jr. was born on June 25, 1893 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He was educated in Salt Lake City public schools and after graduating high school, he attended a year and a …
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