Brief Life History of Wesley Taft
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 1 son. 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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- Wesley T Benson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mr. Wesley Taft Benson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Wesley T Benson, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
1916 · The Logan Library
The Logan Library was created to serve the fifty thousand citizens of Logan with the access of over two hundred thousand items for children, teens, students, and adults to check out and learn from. The library also provides several programs that are popular with the community. The library moved to its current location in 2009 and reached a milestone in items checked out in 2012, at over 1 million.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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