Brief Life History of Anthon
When Anthon Anderson was born on 2 December 1851, in Øvrebø, Vennesla, Vest-Agder, Norway, his father, Gunder Anderson, was 38 and his mother, Kari Andersdotter, was 35. He married Mary Findley Henderson on 11 March 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Cache, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 14 April 1923, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Anthon Anderson, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Anthon Anderson - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Anthon Anderson
- Anthon Anderson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1859 · Logan is Founded
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
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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ANTHON ANDERSON Anthon Anderson was born December 2, 1851 in Christiansand, Norway to Gunder and Kari Olson Anderson. He with his family came to Utah and settled in Plain City. On March 1, 1865 h …
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