Brief Life History of Willard Allen
When Willard Allen Banks was born on 24 February 1883, in Lake Shore, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Heber Banks, was 25 and his mother, Esther Eunice Adamson, was 24. He married Louisa Mae Hughes on 5 June 1912, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1927. He died on 3 September 1927, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- W Allen Banks in household of Esther Banks, "United States Census, 1910"
- Willard Allen Banks, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Willard Allen Banks, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1890 · The Tabernacle is Dedicated
On October 26, 1890, the Tabernacle was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Bank 5, with excrescent -s. The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’. Compare Bank 6.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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