Brief Life History of Orson Guy
When Orson Guy Cardon was born on 6 April 1887, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Barthelemy Cardon, was 44 and his mother, Lucy Gurney Smith, was 35. He married Ruby Lieth Nebeker on 2 June 1911. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1908. He died on 25 November 1958, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Orson Guy Cardon, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Orson Guy Cardon, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Orson Guy Cardon, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1890
Death by suicide of van Gogh.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Jacques, Marie-Claude.
French: habitational name from (Le) Cardon, the name of several places in the southern part of France.
French: from Old Norman French cardon thistle (a diminutive of carde, from Latin carduus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived on land overgrown with thistles, an occupational name for someone who carded wool (originally a process carried out with thistles and teasels), or perhaps a nickname for a prickly and unapproachable person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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