When William Oscar Bentley Jr was born on 17 August 1884, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, William Oscar Bentley Sr, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Mansfield, was 25. He married Hettie Sullivan on 28 December 1907, in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Washington, Washington, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 27 September 1974, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Saint George City Cemetery, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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