When Joseph Elmo Cheever was born on 15 July 1915, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Elmo Smith Cheever, was 21 and his mother, Annie Eudora Meecham, was 23. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 8 November 1942, in Casablanca, Greater Casablanca Region, Morocco, at the age of 27, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English (of Norman origin): from Anglo-Norman French chivere, chevre ‘goat’ (from Latin capra ‘nanny goat’), applied as a nickname for an unpredictable or temperamental person, or a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd. This surname is now extinct in Britain.
History: Born in London c. 1614, the son of spinner William Cheaver, Ezekiel Cheever came to Boston in June 1637. After a brief sojourn in New Haven, CT, he was master of the Boston Latin School from 1670 until his death in 1708. He had twelve children; his youngest son, also called Ezekiel, was the clerk to the court in the infamous Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
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