Brief Life History of Gordon Olando
When Gordon Olando Beckstead was born on 7 August 1881, in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Gordon Silas Beckstead, was 27 and his mother, Elzina Janette Beckstead, was 21. He married Olive Vernon Austin on 9 November 1904, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 19 November 1942, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in South Jordan Cemetery, South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Gordon O. Beckstead, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: Gordon Olander Beckstead - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Gordon Orlando Beckstead
- Gordon O. Beckstead, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of North German Beckstedde or Beckstedt: topographic name from Low German Beck ‘stream’ + -stedde ‘place’, or a habitational name from Beckstedt near Wildeshausen, Oldenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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