Brief Life History of Charles Merritt
When Charles Merritt Bolton was born on 19 October 1884, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Charles Gilbert Bolton, was 35 and his mother, Priscilla Miranda Osguthorpe, was 32. He married Helen Maur Ellis on 8 September 1915, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He immigrated to World in 1945 and lived in Election Precinct 1, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 8 December 1962, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Elysian Burial Gardens, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Charles M Bolton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Charles M. Bolton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Charles Merritt Bolton, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland, and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland, from Old English bothl ‘dwelling, house’ (see Bold 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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