Brief Life History of Alma Gardner
When Alma Gardner Burton was born on 4 December 1895, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Cushing Burton, was 39 and his mother, Mary Jane Eliza Gardner, was 40. He married Vera Louise Taylor on 24 August 1922, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 2, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 18 October 1960, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Alma Gardner Burton, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Alma Gardner Burton, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
- Alma Gardner Burton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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