Joseph Stras Peery

5 October 1868–8 December 1946 (Age 78)
Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Joseph Stras

When Joseph Stras Peery was born on 5 October 1868, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, David Harold Peery, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham, was 22. He married Luacine Hoge on 20 July 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake City Ward 1, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 8 December 1946, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Stras Peery
1868–1946
Julina Clarissa Smith
1884–1923
Marriage: 23 December 1909
Joseph Smith Peery Ph.D.
1911–2006
Luacine Peery
1912–2011
Julina Peery
1916–2012
Elizabeth Louise Peery
1917–1993
Margaret Peery
1919–2014
David Harold Peery
1921–1990

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    23 December 1909Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (10)

    +5 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 2
    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
    1870 · Giving all the right to vote
    Age 2
    The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
    1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
    Age 22
    This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

    Name Meaning

    Irish: variant of Perry , taken to Ireland at the time of thePlantation of Ulster and in the Cromwellian period.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Perry

    Story Highlight

    Joseph Stras Peery - Talks to Tourists - Part I

    JOSEPH STRAS PEERY (1868-1946) Talks to Tourists on Temple Block in Salt Lake City - Led by the spirit, no two talks were the same - 32 years, …

    Sources (110)

    • Joseph Stras Peery in entry for Luacine Peery, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
    • Jos S Peery, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • Joseph S Peery in entry for David I Rhymes and Julina Peery, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"

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