When Wendell Niels Anderson was born on 28 March 1906, in Elsinore, Sevier, Utah, United States, his father, Niels Peter Anderson, was 31 and his mother, Ada Lena Nielson, was 23. He married Betha Vilata Anderson on 10 June 1931, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Richfield Election Precinct, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1940 and Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 10 June 1981, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
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