Brief Life History of Oscar
When Oscar Anderson was born on 17 April 1880, in Peterson, Morgan, Utah, United States, his father, Lars Anderson, was 52 and his mother, Dorothea Eriksdatter, was 40. He married Mekka Rigine Rosenvinge on 18 September 1906, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Milton, Morgan, Utah, United States in 1900 and Uintah Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 30 November 1964, in Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Washington Heights Memorial Park, South Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Oscar Anderson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Oscar Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Oscar Anderson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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