When Samuel Hepworth was born on 8 January 1860, in Drighlington, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Hepworth, was 43 and his mother, Mary Hirst, was 39. He married Almine Josephine 'Minnie' Hansen on 11 August 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 30 November 1928, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Hepworth (Yorkshire) or, less likely, from the place so named in Suffolk. The Yorkshire placename derives from an Old English personal name Heppa + Old English worth ‘enclosure’, while the Suffolk placename comes from Old English hēope ‘rose hip’ or hēopa ‘dog rose, bramble’ + worth.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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