When Ellis Vard Christensen was born on 2 August 1904, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States, his father, Christian Peter Christensen, was 27 and his mother, Alice Robena Ogden, was 25. He married Dorothea Ruth Pope on 4 January 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 30 March 1999, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Bent, Anders, Thor, Jorgen, Nils, Einer, Viggo, Folmer.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christen . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Kristensen . Compare Christenson and Christianson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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