Brief Life History of Cleo Sylvestor
When Cleo Sylvestor Roberts was born on 16 April 1902, in Attica, Marion, Iowa, United States, his father, Ora Joseph Roberts, was 20 and his mother, Katherine Margaret “Maggie” Edwards, was 17. He married Caroline Ione Dotson on 4 April 1923, in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Boone, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Knoxville, Marion, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 18 May 1969, in Truth or Consequences, Sierra, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States.
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- Cleo Roberts, "United States Census, 1930"
- Cleo Roberts, "Iowa, Birth and Stillbirth Records, 1921-1947"
- Cleo S. Roberts, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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