Brief Life History of Peter Niels
When Peter Niels Garff was born on 17 February 1843, in Særslev, Skippinge, Holbæk, Denmark, his father, Niels Jørgensen Garff, was 32 and his mother, Marie Jacobsen, was 22. He married Antomina Sorensen on 26 July 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1920 and Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1921. He died on 5 June 1921, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Draper City Cemetery, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Peder Nielsen in household of Niels Graff, "Denmark Census, 1845"
- Peter Niels Birth 17 Feb 1843 Christening 2 April 1843 in Særslev, Holbæk, Denmark...Visual image
- Peter Neils Garff, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Gräff): variant of Graf . Compare Graeff .
English (London): metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe, from Old French grafe ‘stylus, pencil’, a derivative of Old French grafer ‘to write’ (from Late Latin grafare, from Greek graphein). It is uncertain whether the English name survived the medieval period or whether the early 17th century bearers in Britain were in fact of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Peter Niels Garff--1843-1921
PETER NIELS GARFF 1843-1921 Peter Niels Garff was born February 17, 1843. He was the son of Niels Jorgensen Garff who, being broken in health, was unable to transact the business of preparing to emig …
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