Mabel Clara Reese

Brief Life History of Mabel Clara

When Mabel Clara Reese was born on 18 August 1886, in Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States, her father, Arby Blodgett Reese, was 26 and her mother, Dora E Kirkham, was 20. She married Colin Campbell Wardrop on 15 June 1904, in Box Elder, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Corinne, Box Elder, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Malad Election Precinct, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 3 January 1961, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Colin Campbell Wardrop
1862–1923
Mabel Clara Reese
1886–1961
Marriage: 15 June 1904
Myrtle Mary Wardrop
1905–1978
Robert Myles Wardrop
1907–1944
Mildred Carter Ault
1913–1994
Harvey Reese Wardrop
1915–2005
Shirley Mae Wardrop
1920–2004

Sources (40)

  • Mable Resse in household of A D Resse, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Mabel Reese, "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980"
  • Mabel Wardrop, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

World Events (8)

1889

Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

Name Meaning

Welsh: variant of Rice .

North German and Dutch (De Reese): nickname for a very big man, from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rese ‘giant’.

German: habitational name from any of the places called Rees or Reese, in Rhineland and Lower Saxony.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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