Brief Life History of John Forbes
When John Forbes Anderson Jr was born on 27 June 1885, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, John Forbes Anderson Sr, was 22 and his mother, Mary Ann Ross, was 22. He married Sarah Elizabeth Tracy on 3 June 1910, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Canada in 1902 and lived in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1931 and United States in 1935. He died on 26 June 1961, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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- John Anderson, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1916
- John F Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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