Brief Life History of Evon Wesley
When Evon Wesley Huntsman was born on 12 March 1892, in Caineville, Wayne, Utah, United States, his father, Elmer Ames Huntsman, was 21 and his mother, Augusta Ann Norton, was 21. He married Martha Elnora Gifford on 3 June 1910, in Woodville, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to New Zealand in 1946 and lived in Utah, United States for about 21 years. He died on 16 May 1971, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Evon W Huntsman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Evon W Huntsman, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
- Evon W Huntsman, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1893
New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): occupational name either for a hunter or a servant of a hunter, from a compound of Middle English hunte ‘the act of hunting’ (or Old English hunta ‘huntsman’) + man. In some cases the name may also arise from a late, unrecorded Old English personal name Huntmann, a compound of hunta + -mann.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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"An autobiography of Elmer Ames Huntsman, written by my own hand according to the best of my recollection."
ELMER AMES HUNTSMAN "An autobiography of Elmer Ames Huntsman, written by my own hand according to the best of my recollection." I was born 9th of April, 1870 at Wellsville, Cache County, Utah. I …
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