When Alfred John Cordery was born on 15 June 1901, in Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Cordery, was 50 and his mother, Mary Ann Watling, was 39. He married Eva Elsie Hook on 5 May 1926. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 2 April 1997, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.
English: variant of Cordray .
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