Emile Craner Dunn

Brief Life History of Emile Craner

When Emile Craner Dunn was born on 24 November 1898, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Owen Dunn, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Craner, was 28. He married Evelyn Hyde on 15 August 1928, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1930 and Logan Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 4 August 1989, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Emile Craner Dunn
1898–1989
Evelyn Hyde
1903–2000
Marriage: 15 August 1928
Emile Hyde Dunn
1929–2011
Karen Dunn
1933–2021
Ofa Dunn
1940–2019

Sources (63)

  • Emile Craner Dunn in household of Joseph Owen Dunn, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Dunn, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
  • Emile Croner Dunn, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1902 · Old Main (Utah State University)

The first building on the Utah State University Campus was named Old Main and is the oldest functioning academic building in Utah. It was built after the current site was approved unanimously by the Board of Trustees for the new college. Construction started in 1889 and the entire building was completed in 1902. During the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1919, the building was used as a makeshift hospital to take care the effected residents in the surrounding area. Old Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .

English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).

Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .

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

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Joseph Owen Dunn Family History by Sadie Dunn Jensen Hewlett

Family History of Joseph Owen Dunn and Mary Ann Craner Dunn By Sadie Dunn Jensen Hewlett George Craner was born in Maxtoke, Warwickshire, England, on June 1, 1820. Like all converts of that time, his …

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