Brief Life History of Severin Magnus
Severin Magnus Iverson was born on 18 February 1863, in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway as the son of Iver Jenssen Qvistadplads and Olava Pedersdatter Rostad. He married Kirsten Alvilde Halvorsen on 13 December 1891, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bottineau, North Dakota, United States in 1920. He died on 26 April 1935, in Three Lakes, Snohomish, Washington, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Snohomish, Snohomish, Washington, United States.
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- Magnus Iverson, "United States Census, 1920"
- Magnus Iverson in the North Dakota, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1872
- Magnus Iverson in the Washington, U.S., Select Death Index, 1907
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1873
Historical Boundaries: 1873: Bottineau, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Bottineau, North Dakota, United States
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Iver, Erik, Hjalmer, Lars, Selmer, Thor, Evald, Gunner, Helmer, Ingman, Jarl, Joneen.
Americanized form of Norwegian, Danish, and North German Iversen and of Swedish Ivarsson (see Ivarson ), all cognates of 2 below.
English (Kent and London): patronymic from Old Norse Ívarr, Iwar, Ivar, a compound of either ív ‘yew tree, bow’ or Ing (the name of a god) + ar ‘warrior’ or ‘spear’. Alternatively, the name might be a patronymic from the Welsh male personal name Ifor, itself from British Celtic Iūdomāros ‘lord’ + ‘great’, but if so, it is not clear that it survives today.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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