When Charles Edward Weston was born on 2 September 1890, in Ophir, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, George Edward Weston, was 34 and his mother, Eliza Lavinia Gough, was 35. He married Martha Ludean Bird on 7 August 1913, in Milford, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Tuolumne, California, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 2, Tuolumne, California, United States in 1940. He died on 15 March 1956, in Sonora, Tuolumne, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Sonora, Tuolumne, California, United States.
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Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Weston, from Old English west ‘west’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
topographic name from Middle English atte west tun(e) ‘at the west farmstead, settlement’ (Old English west + tūn), or from Middle English (bi) weste(n)tune (Old English be westan tūne or be west in tūne), denoting someone who lived either to the west of a settlement or in the western part of a settlement. The latter was a common surname in Sussex.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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