Brief Life History of Anthon Henrik
When Anthon Henrik Lund was born on 15 May 1844, in Budolfi, Ålborghus, Denmark, his father, Henrik Jensen Lund, was 24 and his mother, Ane Kirstine Andersen, was 25. He married Sarah Ann Peterson on 2 May 1870, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1864 and lived in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 March 1921, 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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- Anthony Lund, "United States Census, 1870"
- Anthon Henrik Lund, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Anthon H Lund in entry for George Cannon Lund, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847 · Casino Theatre (Copenhagen)
The Casino Theatre was built as an entertainment center by Georg Carstensen but was converted into a theatre in 1848. After many years of never gaining popularity, it was closed in 1937 and demolished in 1960.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Anders, Lars, Nils, Thor, Iver, Nels, Obert, Berger, Einer, Knute, Morten.
Scandinavian, German, and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove, Old Norse lundr; the word was adopted into northern dialects of Middle English and also into Anglo-Norman French. There are a number of places in England named with this word, as for example Lund in Lancashire, East Yorkshire, and North Yorkshire, Lunt in Merseyside, and Lound in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Suffolk, and the surname may derive from any of these. As a Swedish surname it is probably most often ornamental.
German: habitational name from any of the places called Lund or Lunden in Schleswig-Holstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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