When William Peter Mortensen was born on 17 November 1859, in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, his father, Peter Mortensen, was 39 and his mother, Martine Christine Frederikke Willumsen, was 25. He married Agnes Thomsen Mortensen on 10 September 1884, in Sankt Jakob, Leutenberg, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. He died in May 1938, in Laguna Beach, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
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, Lars, Morten, Einer, Jorgen, Bent, Britt, Carsten, Egil, Gunner, Hartvig.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Morten, a vernacular form of Martin 1.
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