Brief Life History of Kathryn Smith
When Kathryn Smith Finlayson was born on 19 May 1918, in North Bend, Coos, Oregon, United States, her father, Birdwell Finlayson, was 24 and her mother, Jessie Leone Smith, was 22. She married Robert Allen Coles on 22 June 1946, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She immigrated to World in 1940 and lived in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States for about 20 years. She died on 16 May 2009, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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- Kathryn Coles, "United States 1950 Census"
- Finlayson, "Oregon, Center for Health Statistics, Birth Records, 1903-1918"
- Kay, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.
President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (see Finley 1 and Finlay ) + -son. This is the Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic MacFhionnlaigh.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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