Brief Life History of Florence
When Florence Barker was born on 14 October 1915, in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, William Nathan Barker, was 31 and her mother, Iva Adelia Bailey, was 25. She married Lawrence Alvin Dastrup on 11 June 1947, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in North Ogden Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 19 January 2013, in Layton, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Florence B Dastrup, "United States 1950 Census"
- Florence Barker, "Utah Births and Christenings, 1892-1941"
- Florence Barker Dastrup, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917 · The Utah Packing Company becomes largest in the west
"Organized by a group of men in 1901, the Ogden Packing Company expanded consistently until it encompassed 6 acres for its main facility. It became the largest meat packing plant west of the Missouri River and had a daily capacity of over 3,000 animals. Their slogan in Utah was ""Raise a Pig"" so that local farmers and their sons would help in the business. After World War I most plants were forced to cut back on production because demand was dropping. It did bounce back and is still an important component in Utah's economy."
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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