Brief Life History of Laura
When Laura Bennion was born on 1 December 1872, in Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Samuel Roberts Bennion, was 30 and her mother, Mary Panter, was 26. She married Thomas Walter Dimond on 26 June 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Bennion, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 13 December 1948, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Laura Bennion in household of Thomas W Diamond, "United States Census, 1910"
- Laura B. Bennion, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Laura Bennion Dimond, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Einion, ap Eynon ‘son of Einion’ (see Eynon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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T.W. Dimond, "Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical, Volume 4"
T.W. Dimond is one of the owners of the business conducted under the name of the Murray Implement Company being associated in this undertaking with his brother W.A. Dimond. Not only however is h …
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