Brief Life History of Joseph Harris
When Joseph Harris Merrill was born on 10 March 1868, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Horatio Harris Merrill, was 31 and his mother, Martine Mouritsen, was 16. He married Katie Eliza Hale on 6 November 1890, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 19 September 1961, in Thomas, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph H Merrill, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Harris Merrill - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Joseph Harris Merrill
- Joseph H Merrill, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1880
Historical Boundaries 1880: Alturas, Idaho Territory, United States 1889: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United states
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Second Wife
Joesph H Merrill returned from Samoa with his first wife and their son in casket(s) in early May 1894. His was met by Grandfather Mouritsen and Grace Hale and exclaimed "Oh what a joyous meeting." O …
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