Brief Life History of Katherine Elmira
When Katherine Elmira Benson was born on 11 January 1916, in Baggs, Carbon, Wyoming, United States, her father, Charles Rowland Benson, was 41 and her mother, Annie Belle Fleming, was 25. She married Theo Wilson Stoddard on 1 October 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Election District 14 Encampment and Collins, Carbon, Wyoming, United States in 1920 and Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1945. She died on 20 February 2018, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 102, and was buried in Downey Cemetery, Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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- Katherine E Stoddard, "United States 1950 Census"
- Katherine Elmira Benson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Katherine Elmira Benson Stoddard, "Find A Grave Index"
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1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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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