Brief Life History of Augusta Elizabeth
When Augusta Elizabeth Hanson was born on 24 December 1853, in Sweden, her father, Olof Hanson, was 22 and her mother, Marta "Martha" Stina Larsdotter, was 27. She married Christian Nielsen Garff on 29 June 1874, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Ogden by Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1898. She died on 29 January 1898, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Agusta Garff in household of Christian Garff, "United States Census, 1880"
- Augusta E Garff, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Augusta Elizabeth Hanson Garff, "Find A Grave Index"
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1859 · Logan is Founded
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Hann or Hand + son; see Hand 5.
Irish: variant of Hampson .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Hansson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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