Alonzo Pratt Kesler

29 January 1868–4 February 1918 (Age 50)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Alonzo Pratt

When Alonzo Pratt Kesler was born on 29 January 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Frederick Kesler, was 52 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Pratt, was 32. He married Donnette Smith on 26 December 1900, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City Ward 3, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 4 February 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alonzo Pratt Kesler
1868–1918
Donnette Smith
1872–1961
Marriage: 26 December 1900
Donnette Kesler
1902–1949
Marion Kesler
1903–1951
Alonzo Pratt Kesler
1905–1984
Henry Smith Kesler
1907–1997
Imogene Kesler
1909–1993
Mack Smith Kesler
1911–1999

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    26 December 1900Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (14)

    +9 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 2
    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
    1870 · Giving all the right to vote
    Age 2
    The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
    1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
    Age 14
    A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

    Name Meaning

    German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kessler .

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

    Possible Related Names

    Kessler

    Sources (58)

    • Alonzo Pratt Kesler in entry for Henry S Kesler, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
    • Alonzo P Kesler, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • Alonzo Pratt in entry for Mack Smith Kesler and Lavina Walker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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