John Harold Holm

Brief Life History of John Harold

When John Harold Holm was born on 28 May 1906, in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, John William Holm, was 37 and his mother, Matilda Lundahl, was 36. He married Elizabeth Dyett on 26 November 1930, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Election Precinct 1, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1998. He died on 23 August 1992, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Harold Holm
1906–1992
Elizabeth Dyett
1906–1998
Marriage: 26 November 1930
Harold Eugene Holm
1931–2015
John Alan Holm
1940–1994

Sources (15)

  • Harold J Holm, "United States Census, 1940"
  • John Harold Holm, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Harold John Holm, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

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World Events (8)

1907 · Not for profit elections

The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

1908 · Utah's First National Monument

Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Anders, Thor, Holger, Nels, Nils, Sven, Helmer, Lennart, Niels, Vibeke.

English, Scottish, German, and Scandinavian: topographic name for someone who lived on an island, in particular a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams, from Middle English, Middle Low German holm, Old Norse holmr, or else a habitational name from a place called with this element. The Swedish name is often ornamental.

English: topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n ‘holly (tree)’; or, especially in southern England, a habitational name from any of the places such as East and West Holme (Dorset) or Holne (Devon). Compare Hollis .

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

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