Brief Life History of Joseph Fielding
When Joseph Fielding Catmull was born on 27 February 1904, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, his father, Henry H. Catmull, was 36 and his mother, Mary Eliza Brunt, was 33. He married Verus Farnsworth on 21 December 1927, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Tomball, Harris, Texas, United States in 1994. He died on 20 December 1997, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph F. Catmull, "United States 1950 Census"
- Joseph F Catmull, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Joseph Fielding Catmull, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
1905
Historical Boundaries 1905: Lincoln, Idaho, United States 1913: Minidoka, Idaho, United States
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (Essex): variant of Cattermole, perhaps of Flemish origin, a habitational name from Quatre-Moulins (Hainault, Belgium), which is derived from Old French quatre moles ‘four mills’. Early spellings with -k- instead of -t-, such as Cakyrmoll (1478) and Cackamoule (1668), would be a normal English colloquial interchange of /t/ and /k/ but could point to a different but unknown etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Joseph Catmull -- Autobiographical Highlights.
My date and place of birth was February 27, 1904 at Idaho Falls, Idaho. Father was motivated to move from Idaho Falls in 1905 by opportunities for homesteading on the Minidoka project. My early life …
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