Brief Life History of Samuel Gerald
When Samuel Gerald Gentry was born on 23 May 1887, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, his father, Arthur Gentry, was 37 and his mother, Henrietta Willa Dotson, was 23. He married Mabel Madsen on 29 November 1905, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Beaver, Utah, United States in 1935 and Beaver Election Precinct, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 11 February 1947, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- Samuel Gerald Gentery, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel G Gentry - birth-name: Samuel Gerald Gentry
- Sam Gentry na entrada para Clarence B Skeugaard e Bettie Gentry, “Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940”
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (Essex and Middlesex): nickname from Middle English, Old French genterie ‘nobility of birth or character’. Compare Gentle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Gentry, Arthur - 1850-1919
Arthur Gentry was the third child and the second of four sons in a family of eight children born to Elizabeth Davis and Samuel Gentry. Arthur was born April 4, 1850, at Mundon, Essex County, England. …
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