Brief Life History of James Smith
When James Smith Anderson was born on 14 September 1868, in Woodside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, his father, John Anderson, was 41 and his mother, Catherine Smith, was 42. He married Zilpha Clarissa Hancock on 4 March 1896, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Canada in 1903 and lived in Burrville Election Precinct, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1900 and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1931. He died on 26 May 1956, in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in Temple Hill Cemetery, Raymond, County of Warner No. 5, Alberta, Canada.
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- James Smith Anderson, "Canada Census, 1931"
- James Anderson, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- James Smith Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1892
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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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