Brief Life History of Leon Reed
When Leon Reed DeKorver was born on 9 September 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Marinus De Korver, was 32 and his mother, Pietertje Westbroek, was 31. He married Eleanora Ruth Gehrke on 9 May 1940, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 26 March 2006, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Leon De Korver, "United States 1950 Census"
- De Korver, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Leon Reed De Korver, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1915 · Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch
The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.
1938 · The DI is Opened To The Public
Deseret Industries is a non-profit organization and a division of Welfare Services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It includes a chain of retail thrift stores and work projects. Many of the items sold are second hand or never used. Such items include furniture, appliances, computers, and clothing. The DI also sells new furniture, much of it received directly from its own manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. The DI provides job skill training for the physically, emotionally and socially challenged and seeks to place them into private sector employment.
Name Meaning
Derivative of Leo , from the oblique case. This form is common as a Jewish name, but recently has also acquired wider currency. The lion is an important symbol among Jews because of Jacob's dying pronouncement that ‘Judah is a lion's whelp’ (Genesis 49:9).
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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