Brief Life History of Owen Dale
When Owen Dale Clegg was born on 25 June 1916, in Grace, Bingham, Idaho, United States, his father, Robert Williams Clegg, was 23 and his mother, Lettice Beveridge Redford, was 27. He married Merna McGregor on 14 February 1939, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Grace Election Precinct, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Grace, Caribou, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 18 May 2001, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Grace Cemetery, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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- Owen D Clegg, "United States 1950 Census"
- Owen Dale Clegg, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Owen Dale Clegg, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1917 · Joining the First World War
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Clegg, from Old Norse kleggi ‘haystack’, originally the name of a nearby hill. Alternatively, a nickname from Middle English clege and Older Scots cleg, gleg ‘gadfly, horsefly’ (Old Norse kleggi), presumably for an irritating person. The name was taken to Ulster in the early 18th century.
Manx: variant of Clague , which in Lancashire and Cumbria have occasionally been absorbed into Clegg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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