Brief Life History of Sidney Airmet
When Sidney Airmet Chalker was born on 29 October 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Sidney Chalker, was 23 and his mother, Jeanette Sellers Airmet, was 24. He married Mirl Giles on 20 June 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 26 July 1976, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Sidney A Chalker, "United States 1950 Census"
- Chalker, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
- Sidney Airmet Chalker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English (Dorset and Somerset): from an agent derivative of Old English (ge)cealcian ‘to whiten’, an occupational name denoting a whitewasher, or, in areas adjacent to chalk uplands, a topographic name for a dweller on the chalk.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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