When Nels Hansson Berge was born on 1 October 1868, in Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, his father, Hans Andersen, was 27 and his mother, Karen Kristina Nilsdotter Berge, was 25. He married Mattie May Outhouse on 14 February 1902, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 6 January 1915, in Benjamin, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Birth year of Gustav Vigeland. Well-known Norwegian sculptor. His statues can be seen in Frogner Park in Oslo which sculpture area occupies 80 acres.
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.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Maren, Johan, Karsten, Alf, Bent, Erik, Gudmund, Knud, Peer, Per, Sten, Thor.
Norwegian and Swedish: variant of Berg , from the dative form. As a Norwegian surname, this is a habitational name from any of numerous farms so named all over the country.
German: topographic name for a person by or on a hill, from an extended form of Berg (formerly with a preposition with dative case, e.g. am Berge).
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