Brief Life History of Heber W
When Heber W Workman was born on 1 January 1850, in Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States, his father, Abraham Smith Workman, was 27 and his mother, Polly Jane Hess, was 30. He died on 1 November 1919, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Heber (mis-transcribed as Helier) Workman in household of Morgan L Inman, "United States Census, 1860"
- Heber Workman, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Heber Workman, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1850
Named after the early pioneer leader Daniel C. Davis the County was established as a territory in 1850.The territorial legislature created Davis County in 1852 and designated its County seat at Farmington-midway between boundaries-the Weber River on the north and the mouth of the Jordan River on the south. Westward the County includes a portion of the Great Salt Lake-its largest island on which Antelope Island State Park is now located.During first half-century Davis County grew slowly.It supported a hardy pioneer people engaged in irrigation agriculture and raising livestock.The Utah Central Railroad(now the Union Pacific crossed the County from Ogden on the north to Salt Lake City on the south in 1870 and offered welcome transportation links to bring manufactured products.This was the beginning of a transition in the County's history that led to mechanized agriculture, a surge of commerce, banking, and local business along with improved roads, new water systems, and the electrification of homes and business
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Abram S. Workman - History
Abram S. Workman joined the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints as a youth, being baptized 22 July 1839 and confirmed 30 July 1839 by Julian Moses and Abram Owen Smoot. Soon after he was 19 y …
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