Brief Life History of Alonzo Thomas
When Alonzo Thomas Barrett was born on 23 December 1890, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Charles Thomas Barrett, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Frances Shelton, was 28. He married Hazel Irene Scott on 30 August 1916, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Mount Sterling, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 7 October 1956, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Alonzo T Barrett, "United States 1950 Census"
- Alonzo T Barrett, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Alonzo Thomas Barrett, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1891 · The Logan Tabernacle is Dedicated
The Logan Tabernacle was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff in 1891 and has been a center piece of Logan since then. In the late 1980's, the Tabernacle underwent a restoration project that restored all the original pioneer designs. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1975.
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.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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