When Andrew Hansen Anderson was born on 10 January 1877, in Sorring, Dallerup, Skanderborg, Denmark, his father, Niels Andersen, was 33 and his mother, Ane Kjerstine Pedersen, was 26. He married Mary Marie Thompson on 23 August 1899, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to World in 1909 and lived in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 19 August 1950, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
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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 NamesThis short story about Andrew Hansen (A.H.) Anderson was told by his daughter Margaret Ruth Evans to her grandson, David Kent Evans. The first time I heard the story of my great-grandfather, I wished …
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