When Kirstine Marie Nielsen was born on 24 January 1871, in Hørning, Kalø, Denmark, her father, Jens Nielsen, was 33 and her mother, Mathilde Kristine Marie Bach, was 33. She married Zachariah Butterfield on 2 December 1896, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She died on 4 July 1897, in Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Niels, Jorgen, Knud, Lars, Nels, Bent, Borge, Holger, Ove, Einer, Oluf.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Niels, a shortened form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas ). Compare Nielson , Neilsen , Nelsen , Nilsen , and Nilson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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