Brief Life History of Orson Winfield
When Orson Winfield Badger was born on 29 August 1882, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Orson Pratt Badger Jr, was 24 and his mother, Annis Shaw, was 21. He married Rebecca Berdina Josephine Jacobsen on 25 June 1907, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949. He died on 9 May 1963, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Orson W Badger, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Orson Winfield Badger - birth-name: Orson Winfield Badger
- Orson U Badger, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Badger, probably from an unattested Old English personal name Bæcg + Old English ofer ‘ridge’.
occupational name for a maker of bags (see Bagge 1) or from Middle English badger ‘hawker, huckster’, though this word is not recorded before 1467–8 and it is of doubtful origin. It is unlikely that the surname has anything to do with the animal (see Brock 2), which was not known by this name until the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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