When Irving Wing was born on 12 October 1892, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Smith Wing Jr, was 27 and his mother, Adelaide Estella Lisonbee, was 27. He married Florence Bush on 3 July 1915, in Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1895 and lived in Ventura, Ventura, California, United States in 1930 and Compton Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 12 July 1959, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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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.
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.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
English: from the Middle English personal name Weng (Old West Scandinavian Wenge, perhaps originally a nickname from vengi ‘pillow, cushion’).
English and Scottish: habitational name from either Wing in Buckinghamshire or Wing in Rutland. The Buckinghamshire placename probably means ‘the people of Wiwa’, from an Old English personal name Wiwa + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. The Rutland placename and probably derives from Old Norse vengi ‘field’.
Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 榮, see Rong 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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