Brief Life History of Thomas Jefferson
When Thomas Jefferson King was born on 27 May 1806, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Enoch King, was 36 and his mother, Rhoda Phillips, was 35. He married Rebecca Englesby Olin on 8 July 1827, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Selma, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1854 and Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States for about 16 years. He died on 23 September 1876, in Layton, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Thos K King, "United States Census, 1860"
- Thomas J. King, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Thomas J. King, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS FRANKLIN KING
Thomas Franklin King, a High Councilor in the Davis Stake, is the son of Thomas Jefferson King and Rebecca E. Olin, and was born in Portage County, Ohio, May 1, 1842. In a sketch prepared for this wor …
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