When Charles Anderson was born on 7 December 1864, in Vernon, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, Erick Anderson, was 38 and his mother, Margareta Eriksson, was 32. He lived in Tooele, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 18 March 1933, at the age of 68, and was buried in Vernon, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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