Robert Shelby Folland

Brief Life History of Robert Shelby

When Robert Shelby Folland was born on 2 September 1883, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Eli Abel Folland, was 28 and his mother, Rachel Ann Lewis, was 24. He married Alice Ann Webley on 17 August 1909, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States for about 5 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 15 April 1948, 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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Family Time Line

Robert Shelby Folland
1883–1948
Alice Ann Webley
1888–1972
Marriage: 17 August 1909
Robert Webley Folland
1910–1953
Julia Rachel Folland
1912–1978
Shelby Lewis Folland
1915–2002
Richard Webley Folland
1917–1998
Frederick George Folland
1921–1921
Alice Webley Folland
1923–2001

Sources (60)

  • Robert Shelby Folland, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • R.S. Folland, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Robert Shelby Folland, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

World Events (8)

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.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin, Fritz, Johann.

Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in Nordmøre, named from Old Norse forland ‘coastal plain below high mountains’.

German: variant of Volland .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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