John Marvin Bailey

Brief Life History of John Marvin

When John Marvin Bailey was born on 31 January 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Reuben Bailey, was 27 and his mother, Bessie Louise Johnson, was 26. He married Ruby Alta Stander on 26 September 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 27 May 2006, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Groveland Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.

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John Marvin Bailey
1913–2006
Ruby Alta Stander
1916–2004
Marriage: 26 September 1940
Carol Ruby Bailey
1936–2007

Sources (38)

  • Janice Bailey, "United States 1950 Census"
  • John Murvin Bailey, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Mr. John Marvin Bailey, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch

The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).

English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.

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

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