Brief Life History of William Thomas
When William Thomas Bailey was born on 5 November 1882, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Brown Bailey, was 49 and his mother, Elsie Marie Christensen Andersen, was 30. He married Zina Dee Ritchie on 14 December 1903, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 26 July 1938, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Ucon Cemetery, Ucon, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- William T Bailey, "United States Census, 1930"
- William T Bailey, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
- William Thomas Bailey, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1897 · The Utah State Historical Society
The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
Name Meaning
English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).
English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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