Brief Life History of Hans Peter
When Hans Peter Lund was born on 16 July 1821, in Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark, his father, Hans Peder Lund, was 43 and his mother, Margrethe Larsdatter, was 40. He married Anna Jensen on 30 January 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 19 June 1880, in Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Huntsville Cemetery, Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- H Peter Lund in household of Willis Brown, "United States Census, 1870"
- Hans Peter Lund, "Find A Grave Index" Death in 1880, Huntsville, Utah
- Hans Peter Lund, "Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1829 · Oldest Leather Goods in Denmark
Kuffert Sorensen was established in 1829 by Carl Peter Sorensen as a leather goods company. Today the business has five locations and each are run by a member of the Sorensen family.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Anders, Lars, Nils, Thor, Iver, Nels, Obert, Berger, Einer, Knute, Morten.
Scandinavian, German, and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove, Old Norse lundr; the word was adopted into northern dialects of Middle English and also into Anglo-Norman French. There are a number of places in England named with this word, as for example Lund in Lancashire, East Yorkshire, and North Yorkshire, Lunt in Merseyside, and Lound in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Suffolk, and the surname may derive from any of these. As a Swedish surname it is probably most often ornamental.
German: habitational name from any of the places called Lund or Lunden in Schleswig-Holstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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1851: Apostle Erastus Snow's letter to Pres. Brigham Young from Copenhagen, Denmark, December 15, 1851
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