Brief Life History of Charles Elmer
When Charles Elmer Barrett was born on 26 August 1885, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Charles Thomas Barrett, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Frances Shelton, was 22. He married Odessa Darnall Heninger on 3 September 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1930 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 24 January 1972, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Charles Elmer Barrett, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Elmer Barrett - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: 26 August 1885; Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
- C. Elmer Barrett, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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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.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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