Brief Life History of Christian Nielsen
When Christian Nielsen Garff was born on 23 February 1848, in Eskebjerg, Ugerløse, Holbæk, Denmark, his father, Niels Jørgensen Garff, was 37 and his mother, Marie Jacobsen, was 27. He married Augusta Elizabeth Hanson 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. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 10 March 1927, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Christian Garff, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Logan City Cemetery Birth and Death Info
- Christian Garff, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1849
Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy. A two-chamber parliament is established.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
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.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Gräff): variant of Graf . Compare Graeff .
English (London): metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe, from Old French grafe ‘stylus, pencil’, a derivative of Old French grafer ‘to write’ (from Late Latin grafare, from Greek graphein). It is uncertain whether the English name survived the medieval period or whether the early 17th century bearers in Britain were in fact of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The Christian Christiansen Handcart Company
Company: Christian Christiansen Company (1857) Narrative: Most of the people in the Christian Christiansen handcart company were Scandinavians (Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes). They numbered about 330 …
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