Brief Life History of Verna Ann
When Verna Ann Fowler was born on 16 April 1888, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Samuel Fowler, was 33 and her mother, Jane Elizabeth Messervy, was 29. She married Henry Castle Hadlock Murphy in 1909, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States in 1940. She died on 19 July 1959, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Verna Murphy in household of Castle Henry Murphy, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Verna A Fowler, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
- Verna Fowler Murphy, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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