When Wendell Darwin Peterson was born on 6 March 1912, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States, his father, Ova Leone Peterson, was 33 and his mother, Ruth Pratt Robison, was 30. He died on 12 April 1929, in San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States.
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The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
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, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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