When Anders Carlsson Björk was born on 7 December 1849, in Björke, Älvsborg, Sweden, his father, Karl Andreasson Björk, was 30 and his mother, Ingrid Jonasdotter, was 23. He married Fredrika Lundskog on 4 July 1875, in Älvsborg, Sweden. He lived in Trollhättan, Älvsborg, Sweden in 1884 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 June 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erland, Erik, Kerstin, Lars, Anders, Fredrik, Jarle, Klas, Lennart, Nils, Olle, Stellan.
Swedish (Björk) and Norwegian (Bjørk): habitational name from any of the many farms named with a word meaning ‘birch’ (Old Norse bjǫrk). The Swedish name is mostly of ornamental origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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