Brief Life History of John Jay
When John Jay Anderson was born on 24 July 1908, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, John Rees Anderson, was 29 and his mother, Mary Camilia Sorensen, was 28. He married Maxine Davis on 28 September 1932, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Election District 1 Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming, United States in 1940 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 11 January 1994, at the age of 85, and was buried in Annis, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.
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- John Jay Anderson, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Jay Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- John Jay Anderson, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1909 · The Cathedral of the Madeleine
The Cathedral of the Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church that was completed in 1909 and currently serves as a cathedral for the Catholic community in Salt Lake City. It is the only cathedral in the U.S. under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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