When Henry Pedersen was born on 22 December 1886, in Mantua, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Marinus Pedersen, was 33 and his mother, Mete Marie Tomine Andersen, was 31. He married Nellie Luke about 1914, in California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 30 years. He died on 23 September 1947, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 60.
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This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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