Brief Life History of Violet Alice
When Violet Alice Birk was born on 12 October 1880, in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Frank Otto Birk, was 43 and her mother, Sarah Hardy, was 30. She married Arthur Gardiner on 16 August 1901. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Election Precinct 2, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. She died on 27 January 1967, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Violet A. B. Gardner, "United States 1950 Census"
- Violet Alice Birk, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Violet Gardiner, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Udo, Bernd, Bernhardt, Gerhard, Gerhart, Hans, Hedwig, Karlheinz, Klaus, Kurt, Manfred, Otto.
Danish, Swedish, and northern English: variant of Birch .
North German: habitational name from any of various places called Birk, Birke, or Birken.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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