Brief Life History of William Alvero
When William Alvero Dunn was born on 2 May 1893, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, his father, Harvey Alvero Dunn Jr., was 24 and his mother, Katherine Elizabeth West, was 21. He married Olive Amanda Johnston on 8 October 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 4 October 1979, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Bennington, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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- William A Dunn, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Alvera Dunn, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- William Alvero Dunn, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
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.
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
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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OLIVE AMANDA JOHNSTON DUNN … by her granddaughter, Jerijean Steed
OLIVE AMANDA JOHNSTON DUNN … by her granddaughter, Jerijean Steed Grandmother was born on Sunday June 2, 1895 in the small northern Utah town of Randolph in Rich County. Her mother was attended by th …
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