When Rudger Clawson was born on 12 March 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Hiram Bradley Clawson, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Gay Judd, was 25. He married Florence Ann Dinwoodey on 1 August 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 21 June 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: variant of Claxton .
Americanized form of North German, Danish, and Norwegian Clausen , Claussen , or Klausen , and also of their Dutch cognates, such as Claassen or Klaassen, patronymics from short forms of the local equivalents of the personal name Nicholas . Compare Clauson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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