Brief Life History of Alvin Roy
When Alvin Roy Christopherson was born on 4 May 1895, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Martin Christophersen, was 45 and his mother, Janet Farquhar Ledingham, was 37. He married Ada Stringham on 17 April 1924, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 30 August 1972, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- A. R. Christopherson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alvin Roy Christopherson - birth: May 1894; Utah, United States
- Alvin Roy Christopherson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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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.
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, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: patronymic from the personal name Christopher .
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from local equivalents of the personal name Christopher (see Christofferson and Christophersen ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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