Brief Life History of George Q
When George Q Waddoups was born on 1 January 1897, in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Edmond Waddoups, was 28 and his mother, Phoebe Ett Bright, was 22. He married Ora Jane Hicks on 11 June 1919, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. He lived in Swan Lake, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 14 March 1980, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- George Q Waddoups, "United States 1950 Census"
- George Q Waddoups and Maria May Anderson "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- George R Waddoups, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1897 · The Amalgamated Sugar Company
The Amalgamated Sugar Company was founded in Logan and later moved to Boise. The company was formed by the combination of two other sugar companies, the Ogden Sugar Company and the Logan Sugar Company. During 1902, the company reported processing over 10,500 tons of sugar from 97,000 tons of sugar beets.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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 (Midlands): variant of Waddup, with post-medieval excrescent -s, a nickname possibly from a Middle English wad-dop ‘gray grebe’, with some allusion to the bird's habits or appearance.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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