Brief Life History of Ralph Edling
When Ralph Edling Dickman was born on 29 January 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Fabian Dickman, was 41 and his mother, Signe Kristina Edling, was 27. He married Loraine Newman on 15 August 1947, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to World in 1944 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1944. He died on 6 August 2008, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Ralph E Dickman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ralph Edling Dickman, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
- Ralph E Dickman, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.
President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English dich(e), dike ‘dike, earthwork’ + man ‘man’ (Old English dīc + mann), hence an occupational name for someone who worked at a ditch or dike, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike. See also Dyke and compare Dicker .
English: occupational name meaning ‘servant (Middle English man) of Dick ’.
Americanized form of Dutch Dijkman, see Dykman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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My memory of Ralph Dickman, by Jim Hinton
I was a senior at Hurricane High School in the fall of 1960. This was my big year—my last at Hurricane High, and as seniors, we were the big boys on campus. There had been some faculty turnover during …
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