When William Wilford Putman was born on 19 July 1902, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Lee Putman, was 39 and his mother, Annie Rebecca Gange, was 28. He married Clara June Charlesworth on 26 February 1921, in Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1902. He died on 5 July 1960, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
English: variant of Pitman .
Dutch: from put ‘pit’ or ‘well’ + man ‘man’, a topographic name for someone who lived by such a feature, or a habitational name derived from a minor place called with the term.
Americanized form of German Buttmann: of French (Huguenot) origin, from Boudemont, unexplained. Compare Butman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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