Brief Life History of Earl Waldo
When Earl Waldo Stauffer was born on 7 January 1893, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, his father, Joseph Elmer Stouffer, was 34 and his mother, Mary Alice Richards, was 33. He married Melba Henrietta LaPray on 2 January 1930, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1949. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 15 October 1968, at the age of 75, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Earl Stouffer in household of Joseph Stouffer, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Earl Stauffer, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Earl Waldo Stauffer, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
South German:
occupational name for a maker or seller of beakers or mugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stouf ‘beaker, stoup’.
habitational name for someone from any of various minor places called with this word, for example Stauf, Staufen; the reference is to hills thought to resemble a beaker in shape. Compare Stouffer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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