Brief Life History of Royal Davis
When Royal Davis Anderson was born about 25 September 1916, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, Harry Emanuel Anderson, was 29 and his mother, Ethel Georgeanna Davis, was 28. He married Evelyn Karlson on 29 June 1942, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to World in 1940 and lived in Alameda, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States in 1940. He died on 17 January 1998, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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- Royal Davis Anderson in household of Harry Emanuel Anderson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1918, Stillbirth Index, 1905-1968
- Utah, Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
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1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
1938 · The DI is Opened To The Public
Deseret Industries is a non-profit organization and a division of Welfare Services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It includes a chain of retail thrift stores and work projects. Many of the items sold are second hand or never used. Such items include furniture, appliances, computers, and clothing. The DI also sells new furniture, much of it received directly from its own manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. The DI provides job skill training for the physically, emotionally and socially challenged and seeks to place them into private sector employment.
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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