Brief Life History of James Richard
When James Richard Beus was born on 5 April 1869, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Jacques Beus, was 28 and his mother, Clarinda Cynthia Hill, was 20. He married Susan Parker on 23 April 1896, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hooper, Weber, Utah, United States in 1950 and World for about 10 years. He died on 4 June 1967, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Hooper City Cemetery, Hooper, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- James Richard Beus, "United States 1950 Census"
- James R Beus, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
- James Beus, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
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.
Name Meaning
German and Dutch (mainly De Beus): variant of Beuse, a cognate of German Böse (see Boese ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Dairyman Will Receive ‘Hall of Fame’ Honor Ogden Standard Examiner Feb 15, 1966 James R. Beus a Hooper resident for 90 ears will be honored by the Weber County Commission Tuesday with the fourth “H …
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