Brief Life History of Ralph Arthur
When Ralph Arthur Bailey was born on 2 July 1899, in Monticello, San Juan, Utah, United States, his father, Nephi Bailey, was 52 and his mother, Annie Eva Augusta MacKelprang, was 43. He married Leona E Snyder on 2 June 1926, in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 11 June 1972, in Blanding, San Juan, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Monticello City Cemetery, Monticello, San Juan, Utah, United States.
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- Ralph A Bailey, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ralph A Bailey, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- Ralph A Bailey, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1902 · Old Main (Utah State University)
The first building on the Utah State University Campus was named Old Main and is the oldest functioning academic building in Utah. It was built after the current site was approved unanimously by the Board of Trustees for the new college. Construction started in 1889 and the entire building was completed in 1902. During the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1919, the building was used as a makeshift hospital to take care the effected residents in the surrounding area. Old Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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