Brief Life History of Sherman J.
When Sherman J. Preece Jr. was born on 2 May 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Sherman Joy Preece, was 22 and his mother, Alice Madolena Lawrence, was 22. He lived in World in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 25 September 1993, in Kalispell, Flathead, Montana, United States, at the age of 70.
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Sources (12)
- Sherman J Preece, Jr., "United States 1950 Census"
- Sherman Joy Preece, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
- Sherman J Preece, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1927 · Land Covered in Dinosaur Fossils
The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
Welsh (especially Herefordshire):
Anglicized form of the patronymic ap Rhys, also spelled ap Res ‘son of Rhys’. Preece is interchangeable with Price , the more common pronunciation of the name.
habitational name either from Prees in Shropshire or Preese in Lancashire. Both placenames derive from Proto-Welsh prês ‘brushwood, copse, grove’ (Welsh prys). Confusion between this name and 1 is likely.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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