Brief Life History of James
When James Anderson was born on 3 October 1842, in Garthamlock, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, Archibald Anderson, was 37 and his mother, Agnes Adamson, was 38. He married Hannah Matilda Cheney on 1 January 1866, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. He registered for military service in 1867. In 1880, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as farmer in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States. He died on 27 January 1922, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fairview Pioneer Cemetery, Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- James Anderson in household of Archd Anderson, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- James Anderson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- James Anderson, "United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1849
"EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER James ""G"" Tucker BIRTH 10 Aug 1786 Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA DEATH 20 Jun 1849 (aged 62) West Point, Lee County, Iowa, USA BURIAL Fairview Pioneer Cemetery Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah, USA PLOT L2_46_1 MEMORIAL ID 70623513 · View Source"
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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ANDERSON, JOHN, farmer and stockman, son of Archibald and Agnes Adamson, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, July 28, 1840. His father came to Utah in ‘55, mother and three sons coming in ‘56, crossing the …
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