Brief Life History of Thomas Nelson
When Thomas Nelson Fenton was born on 9 September 1886, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Nelson Thomas Fenton, was 31 and his mother, Mary Ann West, was 27. He married Ethel Walker on 29 November 1910, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Utah, United States for about 21 years. He died on 15 August 1973, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas N Fenton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Thomas Fenton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Thomas N Fenton, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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