Lester Curtis Miner

Brief Life History of Lester Curtis

When Lester Curtis Miner was born on 12 June 1882, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, Mormon Miner, was 44 and his mother, Emeline Phoebe Curtis, was 37. He married Sylvia Rebecca Anderson on 28 September 1904, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 29 November 1968, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Fairview Upper Cemetery, Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Lester Curtis Miner
1882–1968
Sylvia Rebecca Anderson
1881–1979
Marriage: 28 September 1904
Zada Fay Miner
1905–1985
Sylvia Verl Miner
1907–1975
Lester Olen Miner
1910–1979
James Edwin Miner
1917–1990
Leah Matilda Miner
1919–2015
Myrth Curtis Miner
1924–2011

Sources (50)

  • Lester C Miner, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lester C Minor, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Lester Curtis Miner, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1896 · Utah Becomes a State

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.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English minour, miner ‘miner’ (Old French mineor, mineur). In Cornwall this generally denoted a tin miner, but can refer to the excavation of coal or other minerals.

Americanized form of German Meiner .

Americanized form of French Ménard (see Menard ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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