Brief Life History of Francis
When Francis Salzner was born on 1 January 1870, in Hambach, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Georg Salzner, was 39 and his mother, Anna Marie Lambert, was 33. He married Laura Isabelle Webb on 21 June 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 daughters. He died on 19 April 1957, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Francis Salmer, "United States 1950 Census"
- Franciscus Salzner, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Francis Salzner, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt, a precious commodity in medieval times, from an agent derivative of Middle High German salz ‘salt’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Taken from page 26 of "My Life History" by Wayne Franklin McIntire, 1997. A District Conference in Karlsruhe. President Salzner is center front and Elder McIntire is 3rd from the left wearing a bow …
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