What happened in 1910?
The 13th Census was taken starting on April 15th, 1910. The population of the United States was almost 92 million, and Alaska and Hawaii hadn’t become states yet.
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States.
The Boy Scouts of America was founded.
Father's Day was celebrated for the first time on June 19th in Spokane, Washington.
Alva Fisher patents the first electric-powered washing machine.
Halley's Comet made an appearance on April 20, 1910. It was seen again in 1986, and is next set to pass the earth in 2061.
Where was our family in 1910?
Dahl
Alexander Paulsen Dahl was 78 and his wife Ellen Yorgenson was 68. They resided in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah. They lived near Soren Dahl and his wife Edith Coreada Anderson, who had three children at the time, including Conrad Soren Dahl who was 6.
Else Madsen Eriksen, mother of Edith Coreada Anderson, was 68 and lived in Salt Lake City with her daughter Minnie Anderson.
Francis James Cundick was 66 and his wife Sarah Ann Glover was 60. They lived in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mary Frost Palmer lived in Salt Lake City with 5 of her 12 children. Her husband, Alphonso Morris Palmer, passed away in 1909.
Charles Cundick and Zuretta Eliza Palmer lived with their eight children, including their daughter Reta La Von Cundick who was 7 at the time.
Drake
Stanley Thomas Allgood was 24, and lived with his mother Letty Rees Allgood, and two other brothers in Salt Lake City. His father George Allgood had passed away in 1909.
Ellen Nora Dahl was single, and lived in Salt Lake City with her brother Eric and Sister Lydia. She married Stanley Thomas Allgood in 1911.
Edward Drake ?
Cecelia Gulbrandsen ?
Christian Martin Larsen ?
Caroline Hansen ?
Gordon Sylvester Drake ?
Petterborg
Emil Olsen Petterborg was 53, and lived in Preston, Idaho with his second wife Annie and 5 of their children. His first wife, Erika Eugenia Bjorkman, (mother of Guy Clifford Petterborg) passed away in 1892.
Thomas James Kelly was 62, and lived in Seattle, Washington. He lived with four of his children, including Cecelia Rose Kelly, who was 14 at the time. His wife, Ellen Creeden, passed away in 1904 in Chicago, and the family had moved to Seattle sometime after that.
Webster
Louisa Fleet Smart (Mendenhall) lived in Franklin, Idaho. Her husband Thomas Mendenhall had passed away in 1909. 8 of their 12 children were alive in 1910, including Ada L. Mendenhall, married to Samuel John Webster.
Samuel John Webster was 43, and lived in Idaho with his second wife Ada L. Mendenhall, sister of his first wife Mary Ann Mendenhall who passed away in 1899. They were living with seven children, including Asa Lot Webster, who was 19.
Nahum Boyd Porter was 43, and lived with his wife Sarah Jane Clayton. His first wife, Rosamond Mercy Green, passed away in 1892. Their daughter, Rachel Porter was 18. She and Asa Lot Webster were married later that year. Nahum’s mother, Rachel Ann Murray also lived with the family.
