Brief Life History of Neils
When Neils Anderson was born on 27 March 1884, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Anders Anderson, was 33 and his mother, Ingrid Nielson, was 27. He married Mary Wilson on 23 December 1908, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1936. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 6 October 1958, in Thomas, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Neils Anderson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Niels Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Neils Anderson, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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