Brief Life History of Ray Arthur
When Ray Arthur Anderson was born on 1 October 1898, in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, August "Kull" Andersson, was 55 and his mother, Ellen Andretta Albertina Jonsson, was 37. He married Emma Hilda Johnson on 26 May 1931, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Tooele, Utah, United States in 1898 and Election Precinct 2 Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 20 May 1959, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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- Ray A Anderson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Anderson, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Mr. Ray Arthur Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1899 · The Salt Palace Convention Center
The original Salt Palace was built in 1899 and It stood on 900 South, between State Street and Main Street. The Salt Palace was a frame structure covered in large pieces of rock salt, which gave it its name. The Salt Palace was destroyed by fire on August 29, 1910 and was replaced by the Majestic Hall. This Hall only lasted for a while during the remodel of the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace served as the Olympic Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake Comic Con has been held at the Salt Palace Convention Center since September 2013.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
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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