When Reid J Beckstrom was born on 3 April 1919, in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Oscar Beckstrom, was 50 and his mother, Ellen "Ella" Caroline Lloyd, was 40. He married Elva Mae Duffin on 27 June 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Junction City, Geary, Kansas, United States in 1940 and Somerset, El Dorado, California, United States in 2006. He died on 27 June 2006, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Westwood Hills Memorial Park, Placerville, El Dorado, California, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Bryce Canyon, being named after Ebenezer Bryce, was designated first as the national monument by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 but was re-designated as a national park in 1928 by Congress.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Swedish (Beckström): variant of Bäckström (see Backstrom 1) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesGrandpa Beckstrom.... my dad.... was born at home on their farm in Panguitch, UT. His dad was a farmer and mother of course stayed home. They had I think 10 -12 children and then took in four more t …
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