Brief Life History of Wallace Owen
When Wallace Owen Anderson was born on 17 December 1917, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, his father, Neils Anderson, was 33 and his mother, Mary Wilson, was 29. He married Vivian Darrington on 21 March 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 21 February 1994, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Riverside Thomas Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Wallace O Anderson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1912, Stillbirth Index, 1905-1962
- Utah, Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
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1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
1938 · The DI is Opened To The Public
Deseret Industries is a non-profit organization and a division of Welfare Services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It includes a chain of retail thrift stores and work projects. Many of the items sold are second hand or never used. Such items include furniture, appliances, computers, and clothing. The DI also sells new furniture, much of it received directly from its own manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. The DI provides job skill training for the physically, emotionally and socially challenged and seeks to place them into private sector employment.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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