When Clarence Dixon Taylor was born on 11 May 1909, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Arthur Nicholls Taylor, was 38 and his mother, Maria Louise Dixon, was 37. He lived in Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 21 May 2005, in Utah, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Self-governing Union of South Africa established within British Commonwealth.
To honor Thomas D. Dee, his wife and her children built a hospital as a memorial to him. Located on 24th Street and Harrison the hospital served the community for 59 years. After it closed its doors in 1969, a new hospital was constructed near 39th street and Harrison in 1971. Located next to another hospital, the two hospitals ultimately merged together bearing both names of McKay, after David O. McKay, and Thomas Dee, to honor the hospital that served the surrounding area for many years. The McKay-Dee Hospital is still in operation but has moved from its original spot.
South African parliament enacts Status of Union Act claiming full sovereignty for South Africa.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesClarence Dixon Taylor - Duty, Integrity, and Plain Hard Work A Consummate Uncle Clarence Dixon Taylor, known to all as "Uncle Bud," a life-long Provo citizen, died on 21 May 2005, at the Courtyard a …
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