Brief Life History of George Peter
When George Peter Garff was born on 17 June 1870, in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Peter Niels Garff, was 27 and his mother, Antomina Sorensen, was 18. He married Tryphena Mayer Brimhall on 19 December 1895, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Kingdom of Hawaii in 1896 and lived in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and West Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 21 February 1928, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- George Peter Garff, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- George P Garff, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- George Peter Garff, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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