Brief Life History of John Taylor
When John Taylor Hislop was born on 8 March 1855, in Birkenhead St Mary, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Hislop, was 30 and his mother, Agnes Rogers, was 30. He married Elizabeth Jane Smith on 1 May 1877, in Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 24 February 1904, in Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- John Hislop in household of John Hislop, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- John Taylor Hislop, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- John Hislop, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
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1856
Historical Boundaries 1856: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
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 (Lowlands): habitational name from Hislop, on Hazelhope Burn (Roxburghshire), named with Old English hæsel, hesel ‘hazel tree’ + Old English hop ‘remote valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Elizabeth Jane Smith Hislop
Elizabeth Jane Smith Hislop 1857-1907 Elizabeth Jane Smith Hislop was born in Oxton, Cheshire, England, on February 27, 1857, to John A. and Mary Heathman Smith. There were ten ch …
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