Brief Life History of Willard
When Willard Ballam was born on 18 March 1881, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Alfred Joseph Ballam, was 34 and his mother, Hester Summerhays, was 26. He married Eliza Ettie Petersen on 8 June 1905, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1904 and lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1930 and San Mateo, California, United States in 1940. He died on 4 October 1973, in Pacifica, San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- William Ballam, "United States Census, 1930"
- Utah, Cache County, Hyde Park LDS Ward Record of members, [1860]-1941 Willard Ballam: Birth 1881, Marriage 1905
- Willard Ballam, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1884 · Logan Temple Dedication
On May 17, 1884, the Logan temple was dedicated by John Taylor. It was the only temple dedicated by him and was the second temple in Utah. The temple went under a major reconstruction project in 1976 to increase the capacity of the rooms inside and was rededicated in 1979 by Spencer W. Kimball.
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 (Dorset): variant of Balaam (assimilated by folk etymology to the Biblical personal name Balaam, see Numbers 23–24), which is a habitational name from Baylham in Suffolk or a Norman surname derived from Ballon in Le Mans, Sarthe, France (compare Ballon ). The surname may also be a variant of English Balham, perhaps from Balham in Streatham, Surrey, named with Old English bealg ‘smooth’ or ‘round’ + hamm ‘water meadow, land hemmed in by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Hester Summerhays
Hester Summerhays NOTE: This brief sketch is built of excerpts from the “Biography of Hester Summerhays”, and is, therefore, not to be accepted as complete, but it will serve in aiding the younger ge …
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