When Newell Haws Baum was born on 19 September 1905, in Ashton, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, John William Baum, was 37 and his mother, Myrta Isola Haws, was 33. He married Emily Bingham on 5 March 1925, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Pleasant View Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 20 October 1999, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Historical Boundaries 1906: Fremont, Idaho, United States
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German: topographic name for someone who lived by a tree that was particularly noticeable in some way, from Middle High German, Old High German boum ‘tree’, or else a nickname for a particularly tall person.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Baum ‘tree’, or a short form of any of the many artificial surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Feigenbaum ‘fig tree’ (see Feige ) and Mandelbaum ‘almond tree’ (see Mandel ).
English (Leicestershire): variant of Balme, a habitational name from Balne in Yorkshire, so named with Middle English balne ‘bath, bathing place’ (from Latin balneum ‘bathing place’). There is no early evidence suggesting possible derivation from Middle English balme, baume ‘balm, balsam’, though this word has probably influenced the name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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