Brief Life History of Edward Christian
When Edward Christian Eyring was born on 27 May 1868, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, Heinrich Carlos Ferdinand Eyring, was 33 and his mother, Maria Bommeli, was 37. He married Caroline Cottam Romney on 11 October 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Supervisorial District 2, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1950. He died on 13 April 1957, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Pima Cemetery, Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- Edward C Eyring, "United States 1950 Census"
- Chihuahua, Mexico, Civil Registration Births, 1861-1947
- Edward C. Eyring, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1878 · Early Settlers Arrive in Mesa
George W. Sirrine, Charles I. Robson, Charles Crismon, and Francis M. Pomeroy broke ahead of the Mesa Company to determine the permanent location for the new settlers. They arrived to Ft. Utah in Arizona on December 1877. The remainder of the nine families of the Mesa Company arrived on February 14, 1878. The company moved five miles upstream to utilize an ancient canal. The townsite was known as Mesa City.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German: from an ancient Germanic personal name Iring, of uncertain etymology. Compare Ihrig .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Edward Christian Eyring - by Catherine E Poelman
Ed was the quintessential cattleman. In Mexico where he lived his self-made dream, he would ride out of Colonia Juarez on “a beautiful, tall, proud, well-marked, bay horse that could pace wit …
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