Brief Life History of John Earl
When John Earl Felt was born on 29 May 1891, in Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, John Felt II, was 24 and his mother, Jorgina Cecelia Rasmussen, was 21. He married Myrtle Unsworth on 11 February 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1935 and Huntsville Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 18 November 1976, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Huntsville Cemetery, Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- John E Felt, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Earl Felt, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- John Earl Felt, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
1899 · Hague Peace Convention
The Hague Peace Convention was a series conferences that produced treaties and declarations. The convention took place in Hague, Netherlands. The conferences were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in secular international law.
1914 · WWI and the Netherlands
During WWI, the Netherlands declared that they were neutral and stayed so during the war.
Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for someone who made, worked with, sold, or perhaps wore felt, from Middle English felt ‘felt’. Compare Felter .
German: rare variant of Feld ‘field, area of open country’, or an Americanized form of its cognate Velt.
Swedish: rare variant of Feldt , a cognate of 2 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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