Martin Ivan Bird

Brief Life History of Martin Ivan

When Martin Ivan Bird was born on 6 April 1887, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Martin Montgomery Bird, was 38 and his mother, Cecelia Gerber, was 19. He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1914 and lived in Mount Emmons, Duchesne, Utah, United States in 1920 and Wattis, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 30 October 1945, at the age of 58, and was buried in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Martin Montgomery Bird
1848–1929
Cecelia Gerber
1867–1944
Martin Ivan Bird
1887–1945
Vida Bird
1889–1930
Leda Bird
1891–1955
Joseph Rulon Bird
1893–1937
Mary Louise Bird
1895–1993
Cordelia Bird
1898–1981
Cecelia Bird
1900–1987
Harriet Elizabeth Bird
1905–1981
Edmund Wayne Bird
1911–1983

Sources (22)

  • M. Ivan Bird in household of Marten M. Bird, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Martin Ivan Bird, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Martin Ivan Bird, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

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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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1795 -1898 Hawaiian Kingdom, or Kingdom of Hawaiʻi 1898 – 1959 Territory of Hawaiʻi. 1959 – Present: Hawaii the State.

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

English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.

Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .

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

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