Brief Life History of George Walter
When George Walter Gasser was born on 3 April 1911, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Samuel Gasser, was 61 and his mother, Margaretha Barbara Rückert, was 37. He married Amy Ilene Bigelow on 6 June 1938, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1935 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 2004. He died on 29 January 2004, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- George W Gasser, "United States 1950 Census"
- George Walter Gasser, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- George Walter Gasser, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
1912 · The Capitol Building
As time passed, smaller buildings became inadequate to house the local leaders and the territory legislator, so a call for a new permanent capitol building became an item of discussion. Several of people requested that Salt Lake City donate 20 acres of land for the construction of a new Capitol building, but plans were put on hold until Utah gained statehood in 1896. After the new state legislature passed the approval for the building of the Capitol, funding was secured and the search for a site was underway. One of the more popular sites considered was located on Fort Douglas property, but it was decided to construct it on the original 20 acres site now known as Capitol Hill. The Capitol has been renovated multiple times since its original construction, to better stabilize the structure to be able to withstand a 7.3 magnitude earthquake and to demonstrate the history of the state. The Capitol was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
German and Swiss German (also Gässer); Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a side street or alley, from a derivative of Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and in Slovenia (see 3 below).
English (Hampshire): unexplained.
Slovenian: of German origin (see 1 above). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the Slovenized variant Gaser and possibly also Gasar.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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