Brief Life History of Joseph Alonzo
When Joseph Alonzo Black was born on 9 April 1874, in Snyderville, Summit, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Henderson Black, was 42 and his mother, Betsy Ann Snyder, was 44. He married Minnie Ellen Brannan on 15 October 1903, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1950 and World in 1960. He died on 17 June 1964, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph Alonzo Black, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- J A Black, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Joseph Alonzo Black, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1878 · Early Settlers Arrive in Mesa
George W. Sirrine, Charles I. Robson, Charles Crismon, and Francis M. Pomeroy broke ahead of the Mesa Company to determine the permanent location for the new settlers. They arrived to Ft. Utah in Arizona on December 1877. The remainder of the nine families of the Mesa Company arrived on February 14, 1878. The company moved five miles upstream to utilize an ancient canal. The townsite was known as Mesa City.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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RASMUSSEN FAMILY NOTES By the family of Elizabeth Eliassen Rasmussen and John Brannan August, Nineteen hundred and Seventy Brief history of Joseph Alonzo and Minnie Ellen Brannan Black and their fami …
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