Brief Life History of Robert Leroy
When Robert Leroy Ballard was born on 27 September 1897, in Benson, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Henry William Ballard, was 33 and his mother, Elvira Day Davidson, was 31. He married Agatha Almira Toombs on 11 September 1923, in Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Newton, Cache, Utah, United States in 1930 and Benson Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 10 August 1966, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Robert L Ballard, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mr. Robert Le Roy Ballard, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Robert Leroy Ballard, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1902 · Old Main (Utah State University)
The first building on the Utah State University Campus was named Old Main and is the oldest functioning academic building in Utah. It was built after the current site was approved unanimously by the Board of Trustees for the new college. Construction started in 1889 and the entire building was completed in 1902. During the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1919, the building was used as a makeshift hospital to take care the effected residents in the surrounding area. Old Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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
English: from Middle English ballard ‘bald-headed man’ (compare Bald 3).
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Balhard, composed of the elements bal, presumably meaning ‘torment, spitefulness’, and hard ‘hard, strong’. Compare Ballor .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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