Brief Life History of Ivan Edmund
When Ivan Edmund Chard was born on 5 December 1888, in Liberty, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Henry Theophilus Chard, was 33 and his mother, Mary Ann Berrett, was 31. He married Neta Lorene Oborn on 31 October 1917, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Eden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 18 May 1926, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Liberty Cemetery, Liberty, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Ivan Edmund Chard, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Ivan E Chard, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1941"
- Ivan Edmund Chard, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): habitational name from Chard or South Chard in Somerset, recorded in Domesday Book as Cerdren, possibly from Old English ceart ‘rough heathland’ + ærn ‘building, dwelling’. In some instances the surname may have arisen simply as a topographic name from ceart.
In some cases possibly also French: from a shortened form of the personal name Richardon, a pet form of Richard , or a habitational name from Chard in Creuse.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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