When Carl Christian Pedersen was born on 11 December 1871, in Torslev, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Christian Peter Pedersen, was 24 and his mother, Else Marie Christiansen, was 22. He married Ane Thomine Clausen on 30 December 1892, in Torslev, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sankt Hans, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Denmark in 1906. He died on 8 December 1959, in United States, at the age of 87.
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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.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Niels, Bjorn, Knud, Nils, Anders, Jorgen, Egil, Einer, Knut, Peer.
Norwegian and Danish: patronymic from the personal name Peder (see Peter ). This surname is also found in northern Germany. Compare Petersen 2 and Peterson 1.
English: variant of Peterson .
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