Brief Life History of Robert Rodney
When Robert Rodney Perry was born on 5 April 1912, in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, James Shanks Perry, was 43 and his mother, Eliza Almira Cordon, was 39. He lived in Monterey Judicial Township, Monterey, California, United States in 1940 and Union Gap, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1950. He died in December 1995, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Robert R Perry, "United States 1950 Census"
- Robert Rodney Perry, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Robert Rodney Perry, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1914 · The American Can Company of Utah Building Complex
The American Can Company of Utah Building Complex was built downtown Ogden on 20th and Lincoln Ave. It employed over 450 people and produced millions of cans of food from crops of local farmers. It was closed in 1979 but was added as a Historic Place in 2005 to the National Register. It has also become a headquarters for Amer Sports.
1934 · The Construction of a Reservoir
In 1933 the funds were obtained to start building a reservoir at the Pineview site. President Roosevelt then authorized the Ogden River Project on November 16, 1935 and was supervised and fully funded under the National Industrial Recovery Act.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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