When Charles Augustus Benson was born on 9 July 1837, in Griggsville, Pike, Illinois, United States, his father, Ezra Taft Benson, was 26 and his mother, Pamelia Emma Andrus, was 27. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Cache, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 18 February 1873, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 35.
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
Charles Augustus Benson was the oldest son born to Ezra T. Benson who lived. He crossed the plains as a boy of 12 with his father and mother, Pamelia. He was endowed 11 April 1856 at the Endowment Hou …
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