Brief Life History of Franklin Wheeler
When Franklin Wheeler Young was born on 17 February 1839, in Winchester, Scott, Illinois, United States, his father, Lorenzo Dow Young, was 31 and his mother, Persis Goodall, was 32. He married Nancy Leonora Greene on 5 March 1858, in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Fremont, Piute, Utah, United States in 1880 and Orangeville, Emery, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 22 January 1911, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Orangeville, Emery, Utah, United States.
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- Franklin Young in household of Lorenzo D Young, "United States Census, 1850"
- Salt lake Tribune 1895 Birthday of the Prophet
- Franklin W. Young, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Tuilla, Utah Territory, United States 1852: Tooele, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Tooele, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of Franklin W. Young to Aretta
Letters from Franklin W. Young to his daughter, Aretta My dear daughter:- In your last, and very welcome letter, you asked me to write and tell you of my “Boy-hood days”, and I will try and do so, b …
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