Brief Life History of Cecil Jones
When Cecil Jones Peterson was born on 2 January 1890, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Charles John Peterson, was 27 and his mother, Mary Christina Smith, was 19. He married Leona Melaine Serempus on 16 October 1917, in Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 5 years and Brooklyn Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 22 April 1957, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Suisun Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Solano, California, United States.
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- Cecil J Peterson, "United States Census, 1920"
- Cecil Jones Peterson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Mr. Cecil Jonas Peterson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Cecil Jonas Peterson
Cecil Jonas Peterson, Born on 2 Jan 1890 in Draper, Salt Lake,Co. Utah.to parents Carl John Charles Peterson and Mary Christina Smith. In Jun 1917 when Cecil Jonas was 27, he married Leona Serum, i …
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