When David Elery Chard was born on 1 November 1881, in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Henry Theophilus Chard, was 26 and his mother, Mary Ann Berrett, was 23. He married Sarah Minerva Jones on 7 January 1903, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 18 August 1980, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Liberty, Weber, Utah, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English (southwestern): habitational name from Chard or South Chard in Somerset, recorded in Domesday Book as Cerdren, possibly from Old English ceart ‘rough heathland’ + ærn ‘building, dwelling’. In some instances the surname may have arisen simply as a topographic name from ceart.
In some cases possibly also French: from a shortened form of the personal name Richardon, a pet form of Richard , or a habitational name from Chard in Creuse.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names(As written by himself in the spring of 1956) I was born November 1, 1881m in North Ogden, Utah; the third child of a family of nine children. My parents were of English decent. My father, Henry Theo …
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