Brief Life History of Edna Mae
When Edna Mae Rawlings was born on 9 March 1904, in Fossil, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, her father, Frederick Sharp Rawlings, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Cook, was 22. She married George Elester Jensen on 20 June 1921, in Diamondville, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Township 5, Elko, Nevada, United States in 1940 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1949. She died on 7 January 1949, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Edena May Rawlins in household of Fred S Rawlins, "United States Census, 1920"
- Edna Mae Rawlings, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Edna Mae Rawlings Jensen, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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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.
1908 · The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot
Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot dates to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroads and the Oregon Short Line. The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first main line built in the Salt Lake Valley. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the passenger services at the station, but all trains were moved to the Rio Grande station after it joined Amtrak. In January 2006, The Depot was opened as a shopping center that housed shops, restaurants and music venues.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Rawling , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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