Brief Life History of Grant Symons
When Grant Symons Anderson was born on 8 September 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Christian Nephi Anderson, was 48 and his mother, Maud Rebecca Symons, was 31. He married Elizabeth Allen on 1 October 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years and United States in 1949. He died on 20 April 2010, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Grant S. Anderson in household of Rebeca Maude Anderson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Anderson, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Grant Symons Anderson, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
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World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Grant Symons Anderson
Grant Symons Anderson was born September 8, 1913, the third child of Christian Nephi Anderson and Maud Rebecca Symons Anderson. He had three brothers, Dean S. Anderson, Harald S.Anderson, and Charles …
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