When Wesley Taft Benson was born on 15 September 1907, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Henry Taft Benson, was 38 and his mother, Selma Lundberg, was 31. He married Nellie Marie Earl on 17 June 1936, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1950. He died on 25 May 1991, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 83.
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English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
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