Brief Life History of Leonard Eli
When Leonard Eli Clifford was born on 18 September 1888, in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Elisha Leonard Clifford, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Maria Campbell, was 23. He married Almeda Marion Taylor on 12 July 1905, in Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Grant, Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 18 February 1929, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Lenard Eli Clifford, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Mr. L E Clifford and Miss Almeda Taylor, 1905, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Lenard Eli Clifford, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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Historical Boundaries 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Fremont, Idaho, United States 1913: Jefferson, Idaho, United States
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Clifford in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The placename is derived from Old English clif ‘slope’ + ford ‘ford’.
Irish: adoption of the name in 1 above as Anglicization of several Irish names, especially Ó Clúmháin ‘descendant of Clúmhán’, which was the surname of an ecclesiastical family in Sligo and can be traced back to the 12th century. The personal name meant ‘little hairy one’, a diminutive of Irish clúmach ‘hairy’, from clúmh ‘feathers, plumage, down; hair or fur’. Clifford was also adopted for Coleman and in Fermanagh for Crifferty, Clifferty, and Cliffordy, which are Anglicized forms of Mac Raibheartaigh (compare Rafferty ).
History: A powerful Anglo-Norman family of this name in England and Ireland trace their descent from Walter de Clifford, who took the name from Clifford (Castle) in Herefordshire in the 12th century, after acquiring the Clifford barony by marriage.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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