Brief Life History of Josephine
When Josephine Larsen was born on 25 February 1869, in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Christian Larsen Sr., was 42 and her mother, Anna Sophia Nielsdatter, was 29. She died on 27 October 1877, in her hometown, at the age of 8, and was buried in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Josephine Larson in household of Christian Larson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Birth and Death source for Josephine Larsen
- Josephine Larsen, "Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946"
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World Events (8)
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Nels, Niels, Sven, Thor, Knud, Nils, Per, Jorgen, Alf, Bjorn.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Lars, an equivalent of Lawrence . This is also an Americanized form of the cognate Larssen. Compare Larson 1, Larrison , and Lawson 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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