When Osborne John Peter Widtsoe was born on 12 December 1877, in Namsos, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway, his father, John Andersen Widtsoe, was 37 and his mother, Anna Karine Gaarden, was 28. He married Rosetta Rebekah Homer on 20 June 1906, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 14 March 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, 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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
From a Late Old English personal name composed of ōs ‘god’ + beorn ‘bear, warrior’ (both of Scandinavian origin). As a modern given name it generally represents a transferred use of the surname that was derived from this name during the Middle Ages.
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Possible Related NamesOsborne John Peter Widtsoe (as he was known in America) was born in Namsos, North Trondheim, Norway, on the 12th of December 1877. His father was John Anderson Widtsoe, an instructor in languages and …
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