Brief Life History of Doris
When Doris Cook was born on 25 August 1899, in Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States, her father, David Cook, was 43 and her mother, Fanny Maria Beazer, was 34. She married Glen Briggs on 3 June 1925, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Midway, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1950. She died on 20 February 1970, in Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Doris C Briggs, "United States 1950 Census"
- Doris Cook, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Doris Briggs, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · The Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized by Annie Taylor Hyde after she invited a group of fifty-four women to her home to find ways to recognize names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers. They followed the lead of other national lineage societies, such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. They were legally incorporated in 1925.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Middle English cok, coke, cook, couk, cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew .
Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above), but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’, such as German and Jewish Koch , Dutch Kook , Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk , Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar , North German Kuk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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