Brief Life History of Violet Irene
When Violet Irene Best was born on 30 May 1891, in Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Lloyd Byron Best, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Watts, was 20. She married Raymond J. Smith on 14 April 1909, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1910 and Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1950. She died on 28 May 1978, in California, United States, at the age of 86.
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- Violet Whitford, "United States 1950 Census"
- Violet Irene Best, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Violet I. Whitford in entry for Claude W. Whitford, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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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.
1898 · The Ogden Utah Sugar Factory Opens
The Ogden Utah Sugar Factory harvested sugar from beets because sugar cane was hard to grow in northern Utah. During World War, it was hard to get sugar beet seeds, so the company started to harvest the seeds of the beets they were using. The Company merged with a factory in Logan to create the Amalgamated Sugar Company which is still operational today.
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.
Name Meaning
English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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