When Parley Pratt Bitton was born on 29 October 1888, in West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, John Wintle Bitton, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Jane Dance, was 29. He married Chloe May Killian on 28 November 1908, in Riverside, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900 and Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 18 November 1955, in Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
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.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Meyer, Yoram, Aharon, Haim, Ilan, Itsik, Menashe, Moshe, Ronen, Tali, Yosef. French Michel, Yvan, Alain, Armand, Herve, Jacques, Josephe.
Jewish (Sephardic): from the medieval male personal name Viton, from the Romance root vita ‘life’.
English: topographic name perhaps from Middle English bittem, a phonological variant of botme ‘bottom’; compare Bottom . Alternatively, a habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Bitton. The place takes its name from the Boyd river, a Celtic river name of uncertain origin + Old English tūn ‘settlement, farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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