Virginia Peterson

Brief Life History of Virginia

When Virginia Peterson was born on 23 April 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Hugo Carl Anton Peterson, was 30 and her mother, Grace Herron, was 23. She married Richard Joseph Costley on 3 April 1937, in Weber, Utah, United States. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1930 and Ogden City Legislative District 3, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 21 September 2009, at the age of 94.

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Family Time Line

Richard Joseph Costley
1912–2012
Virginia Peterson
1915–2009
Marriage: 3 April 1937

Sources (16)

  • Virgina Peterson in household of Hugo C Peterson, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Virginia Peterson, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
  • Virginia P Costley, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

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.

1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch

The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).

Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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