Brief Life History of William Thomas
When William Thomas Tew Jr was born on 2 January 1885, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, William Thomas Tew, was 25 and his mother, Clara Elizabeth Snow, was 22. He married Jennie Maud Houtz on 16 June 1913, in Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Clinton, Utah, Utah, United States in 1900 and Custer, Idaho, United States in 1920. He died on 24 January 1954, in Mapleton, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- William T. Tew in household of William Tew, "United States Census, 1900"
- Wm T Tew, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- William Thomas Tew, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1887 · New Zealands's First National Park
Tongariro National Park was the sixth national park established in the world and the first in New Zealand. In the center of the park there lies three active volcanic mountains (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro). it is home to the famed Tongariro Alpine Crossing day hike and has been recognized as a World Heritage Site for all its natural values.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
Welsh: nickname for a fat man, from tew ‘plump’.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire (Great, Little and Duns Tew), named with an Old English tīewe ‘row, lengthy object’, referring to the ridge on which these places are situated, or from tīwe ‘meeting place, court’. The surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century.
Chinese: Teochew, Hokkien, and Taiwanese form of the surnames 張 (see Zhang 1) and 趙 (see Zhao 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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