When Christian Nephi Anderson was born on 22 January 1865, in Kristiania, Norway, his father, Christian Anderson, was 31 and his mother, Petronelle Nielsdatter, was 38. He married Aseneth Tillotson on 22 December 1886, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1890 and Box Elder Election Precinct, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1900. In 1910, at the age of 45, his occupation is listed as librarian of utah genealogical society and editor of its magazine in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 6 January 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Earliest passenger lists begin in 1867 for the ports of Oslo and Trondheim. Other ports followed.
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.
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.
Possible Related NamesOn the thirtieth of September 1835, Ephraim Tillotson was born at Great Horton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He was the youngest of eleven children born to John and Mary Rycroft Tillotson. His fath …
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