When Ralph Ashford Knowlton was born on 24 December 1897, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Knowlton, was 59 and his mother, Catherine Aurelia Hinman, was 33. He married Lillian Esther Lokke on 22 October 1932, in Yakima, Washington, United States. He lived in Farmington Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States in 1900 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States for about 15 years. He died on 23 July 1965, in Monroe, Snohomish, Washington, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Germany annexes Western Samoa, the U.S. takes over eastern Samoa and Britain withdraws its claim to the islands in accordance with treaty between Germany, Britain and the U.S.
Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
English (Hampshire): habitational name from either of two places so named, one in Dorset and the other in Kent. Both are named from Old English cnoll ‘knoll, hilltop’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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