Brief Life History of Joshua Horton
When Joshua Horton Alphin was born on 16 January 1841, in Payson, Adams, Illinois, United States, his father, Israel Dodge Allphin, was 26 and his mother, Burnetta Collings, was 22. He married Alice Virginia Hundley on 8 March 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Douglas, White Pine, Nevada, United States in 1900 and Caliente, Lincoln, Nevada, United States in 1910. He died on 20 November 1924, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Joshua H Alphin, "United States Census, 1920"
- Joshua H Alphin, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Joshua H Celphin, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Altered form of an unidentified surname, possibly Dutch Van Alphen: habitational name from either of the places so named in North Brabant and South Holland. Compare Allphin .
History: An entry in the English Patent Rolls records a Richard Alphyn, born in Gelderland, the Netherlands, living in Leicester in 1436, and the name recurs in post-medieval records in England, whence it may also have been brought to the US.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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