Robert Henry Blain

Brief Life History of Robert Henry

When Robert Henry Blain was born on 18 February 1879, in Spring City, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, Robert J. Blain, was 35 and his mother, Melissa Veresta Barney, was 21. He lived in Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1880 and Spring City Election Precinct, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 25 April 1954, in Spring City, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Spring City Cemetery, Spring City, Sanpete, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert J. Blain
1843–1926
Melissa Veresta Barney
1857–1945
Robert Henry Blain
1879–1954
Lilian Blain
1881–1882
Raymond Blain
1883–1963
James Melvin Blain
1885–1971
Earl Blain
1887–1957
Cloyd Blain
1890–1964
Grover Blain
1892–1978

Sources (26)

  • Henry Blain, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Robert Henry Blain, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
  • Robert Henry Blain, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1896 · Utah Becomes a State

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.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French/Haitian Donat, Jacques, Michel, Cecile, Elzear, Ermite, Fernand, Gaston, Germain, Gisele, Jean Claude, Jobe.

Scottish: shortened form of MacBlain, a shortened form of Mac Gille Blathain ‘son of Gille Blááin’, a personal name meaning ‘servant of Saint Bláán’. Bláán, after whom Dunblane in Perthshire was named, appears in placenames in both Ireland and Scotland.

English: from Middle English bleyne ‘inflamed swelling on the surface of the body’, possibly a nickname for a person suffering from boils or some form of inflamation of the skin.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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