Brief Life History of Oley
When Oley Anderson was born on 22 August 1870, in Verum, Göinge västra, Kristianstad, Sweden, his father, Neils Anderson, was 39 and his mother, Bengta Rebecca Johnson, was 29. He married Edla Sophia Johnson on 9 September 1903, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States in 1920 and Providence Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 6 September 1941, in Grover, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Grover, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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- Ole Anderson in household of Nils Anderson, "United States Census, 1880"
- County: Kristianstad; Parish: Verum; Volume: 352; Record Type: Födde (Births); Year Range: 1870; Roll/Fiche: SC-712; Handwritten/Stamped Page Number: 0/0.
- Oley Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1872 · The First National Park
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1872 · Yellowstone National Park Created
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law passed by congress on March 1 1872, making Yellowstone a National Park. The park covers parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.
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Historical Information: 1883: Deer Lodge, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Deer Lodge, Montana, United States
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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