When Perry Sessions Ashdown was born on 8 December 1896, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, William Ashdown, was 52 and his mother, Mary Elvira Sessions, was 32. He married Charlotte Mabel Allred on 8 February 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Beryl, Iron, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 29 August 1945, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
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.
English: habitational name from Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, named in Old English with æscen ‘growing with ash trees’ + dūn ‘hill’. Perhaps also occasionally from Ashdown in Lenham, Kent.
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