Brief Life History of Lorenzo Anton
When Lorenzo Anton Berg was born on 1 May 1894, in Basalt, Bingham, Idaho, United States, his father, John Hansen Berg, was 37 and his mother, Nickoline Clementine Clemensen, was 21. He married Bertha Bell Lovell on 14 July 1926, in Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Ogden City Legislative District 4, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 6 July 1977, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Lorenzo A Berg, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lorenzo A Berg, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Lorenza A Berg, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · The Ogden Utah Sugar Factory Opens
The Ogden Utah Sugar Factory harvested sugar from beets because sugar cane was hard to grow in northern Utah. During World War, it was hard to get sugar beet seeds, so the company started to harvest the seeds of the beets they were using. The Company merged with a factory in Logan to create the Amalgamated Sugar Company which is still operational today.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lennart, Bjorn, Lars, Nils, Alf, Nels, Thor, Tor, Knute, Selmer, Anders.
German and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill or mountain, from Middle High German berc, Middle Dutch berghe. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Poland. Compare Dutch Vandenberg .
Norwegian and Danish: habitational name from a farmstead named with Old Norse bjarg ‘mountain, hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Lorenzo's War Diary
It was Oct. 2, 1917, that I left from Blackfoot, Idaho with sixty other young men for Camp Lewis in the state of Washington. We arrived safe and sound and were issued blankets and directed to barracks …
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