David Orin Huntsman

Brief Life History of David Orin

When David Orin Huntsman was born on 24 July 1851, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, James William Huntsman, was 44 and his mother, Hannah Ralston Davis, was 35. He married Emeline Davis Bray on 29 August 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 27 December 1907, in Clark, Nevada, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Pioneer Hill Cemetery, Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Orin Huntsman
1851–1907
Emeline Davis Bray
1855–1920
Marriage: 29 August 1870
James William Huntsman
1872–1953
David Lorenzo Huntsman
1874–1927
Florence Edna Huntsman
1876–1914
Tacy Paralee Huntsman
1878–1880
Alonzo Howard Huntsman
1881–1949
Luna Amelia Huntsman
1884–1938
Hyrum Ellis Huntsman
1886–1932
Edwin Samuel Huntsman
1890–1967
Frank Robert Huntsman
1893–1942
Julius Andrew Huntsman
1897–1980

Sources (28)

  • David Huntsman, "United States Census, 1880"
  • 1907 - David Oran Huntsman, "BillionGraves Index"
  • David O Huntsman, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1862

Historical Boundaries: 1862: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1883: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): occupational name either for a hunter or a servant of a hunter, from a compound of Middle English hunte ‘the act of hunting’ (or Old English hunta ‘huntsman’) + man. In some cases the name may also arise from a late, unrecorded Old English personal name Huntmann, a compound of hunta + -mann.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Story Highlight

The Huntsman Ranch at Kane Springs, Nevada - Up the Meadow Wash near Moapa

Edit Story Note to story: We tried to visit the ranch on Christmas Eve 2017 and were unable to drive down into the place. The floods a few years ago wrecked havoc on the roads and it looks like some …

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