Brief Life History of Dan Mason
When Dan Mason Pilling was born on 14 August 1929, in Helper, Carbon, Utah, United States, his father, Mason Cleon Pilling, was 24 and his mother, Laura Jensine Grundvig, was 22. He married Geraldine Louise "Jerri" Dowd on 24 April 1951, in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 35 Carbonville, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1940 and Heiner, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 26 January 2004, in Moab, Grand, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sunset Cemetery, Moab, Grand, Utah, United States.
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- Dan M Pilling, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dan Mason Pilling, "BillionGraves Index"
- Dan Pilling in entry for Joe Dowd Jr, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1931 · The Hogle Zoo
Being supported through Salt Lake City taxes, the Hogle Zoo has been at its present location at the mouth of Emigration Canyon since 1931 on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hogle. In 1936, the zoo purchased Princess Alice, an elephant, from a traveling circus. She gave birth to the first elephant born in Utah. His name was Prince Utah and he died at eleven months old. Current exhibits include various birds, mammals, and reptiles from around the world.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place so called, which takes its name from the River Pilling. The etymology of the river name is uncertain, but is perhaps associated with Old English pyll ‘tidal creek’.
English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived by a creek or stream (Old English pyll ‘tidal creek’), or by a stake, a derivative of Pill + the Middle English suffix -ing.
English (Lancashire): perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Piling, a pet form of Old English Pīl (from pīl ‘stake’, perhaps a short form of an Old English name such as Pīlheard), + the Old English hypocoristic suffix -ing.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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