Brief Life History of Oscar Alfred
When Oscar Alfred Anderson was born on 21 October 1854, in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, his father, Håkan Anderson, was 32 and his mother, Mariane Marie Nielsdatter, was 21. He married Thirza Jane Lee on 28 May 1878, in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1860. He died on 30 November 1922, in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- 1860 Denmark Census for Oscar Alfred Anderson in household of Håken Andersson & Mariane Marie Nielsdatter
- 1854 Denmark Church Birth of Oscar Alfred Andersen, "Denmark Church Records"
- 1905 Utah Marriage of Oscar Alfred Anderson & Mary Jane Chittock
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1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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