Brief Life History of Ezra Taft
When Ezra Taft Benson was born on 4 August 1899, in Whitney, Franklin, Idaho, United States, his father, George Taft Benson Jr, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Sophia Dunkley, was 21. He married Flora Smith Amussen in 1926, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Boise, Idaho, United States in 1935 and District 7, Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1940. He died on 30 May 1994, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Whitney, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- Ezra T Benson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ezra Taft Benson - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ezra Taft Benson
- Ezra T Benson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
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1900 · Preston Incorporated as Village
Preston was incorporated as a village on July 25, 1900. Trustees Joseph Johnson, H.S. Geddes, D.J. Hammon, John Larsen, and Benjamin Curtis unanimously named John Larsen as Chairman of the Board. They elected Hyrum Jensen as Marshall, William M. Daines as Treasurer, Charles D. Goaslind as Justice of the Peace, and A.W. Hart as Village Attorney. The first ordinances passed provided “the punishment of offenses and malicious mischief,” prohibited gambling, the “impounding and disposing of trespassing animals,” and a speed limit of eight miles per hour.
1901 · The Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized by Annie Taylor Hyde after she invited a group of fifty-four women to her home to find ways to recognize names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers. They followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were legally incorporated in 1925.
1924
First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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