Brief Life History of Joseph Henry
When Joseph Henry Felt was born on 9 May 1840, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathaniel Henry Felt, was 24 and his mother, Eliza Ann Preston, was 19. He married Sarah Louisa Bouton on 24 December 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 15 June 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States Census, 1900"
- Joseph Henry Felt, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Joseph R in entry for Raymond Liddle Felt, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for someone who made, worked with, sold, or perhaps wore felt, from Middle English felt ‘felt’. Compare Felter .
German: rare variant of Feld ‘field, area of open country’, or an Americanized form of its cognate Velt.
Swedish: rare variant of Feldt , a cognate of 2 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Joseph Henry Felt was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the first of ten children born to Nathaniel Henry Felt and Eliza Ann Preston. He lived in Salem until he was five, when his family joined the saints …
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