When Mary Lyle Currie was born on 10 August 1896, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, John William Douglass Currie, was 33 and her mother, Ellen Watson, was 26. She married Chalapha George Goss Jr on 19 July 1924, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 44 years. She died on 23 September 1988, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Scottish: habitational name from Currie in Midlothian, first recorded in this form in 1230. It is derived from Gaelic curraigh, dative case of currach ‘wet plain, marsh’.
Scottish: habitational name from Corrie in Dumfriesshire or another place so named (see Corrie ).
Scottish form of Irish Curry or, in Arran, an Anglicized form of Mac Mhuirich (see McMurray ).
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