When Willard Gardner Burton was born on 3 October 1883, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Cushing Burton, was 26 and his mother, Mary Jane Eliza Gardner, was 28. He married Mary Latham Hunter on 21 June 1906, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 2, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Tennessee, United States in 1934. He died on 27 August 1934, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
English: habitational name from a placename that is very common in central and northern England. The derivation in most cases is from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
French (northeastern): regional variant of Berton .
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