Brief Life History of Vernon Arus
When Vernon Arus Bird was born on 18 March 1902, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Vernon Ray Bird, was 23 and his mother, Belva Ballinger, was 21. He married Margaret Brown about 1931. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Utica, Oneida, New York, United States in 1950 and Bethlehem, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1998. He died on 2 April 1998, in Coopersburg, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 96.
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- Vernon A Bird, "United States 1950 Census"
- Vernon Arus Bird, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
- Vernon Bird, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1908 · The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot
Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot dates to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroads and the Oregon Short Line. The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first main line built in the Salt Lake Valley. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the passenger services at the station, but all trains were moved to the Rio Grande station after it joined Amtrak. In January 2006, The Depot was opened as a shopping center that housed shops, restaurants and music venues.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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