Brief Life History of James Maurice
When James Maurice Clayton was born on 27 May 1915, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, his father, Raymond Horne Clayton, was 34 and his mother, Ada Matilda Schaerrer, was 31. He married Neva Maria Janson Thorell on 27 November 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 6, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1940. He died on 24 December 2003, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Maurice Clayton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Maurice, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Utah, Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
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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: habitational name from any of numerous places, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Sussex, named Clayton, from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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