Brief Life History of Ephraim Leroy
When Ephraim Leroy Peterson was born on 3 October 1898, in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Andrew Petersson, was 57 and his mother, Mathilda Maria Andersdtr, was 41. He married Ina Reine Fergus on 30 July 1926, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States. He lived in East Garland Election Precinct, Box Elder, Utah, United States for about 10 years and United States in 1940. He died on 18 April 1980, in Garland, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Garland, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Ephraim L Peterson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ephraim L Peterson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Ephraim Leroy Peterson, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · The Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized by Annie Taylor Hyde after she invited a group of fifty-four women to her home to find ways to recognize names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers. They followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were legally incorporated in 1925.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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