Brief Life History of Josephine Matilda
When Josephine Matilda Bengtson was born on 22 September 1869, in Harplinge, Halland, Sweden, her father, Bengt Johannesson, was 33 and her mother, Petronella Olsen, was 29. She married John Hanson Holmquist on 18 January 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She immigrated to United States in 1910 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 7 August 1939, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Josephine B Holmquist in household of John H Holmquist, "United States Census, 1920"
- Josephine Matilda Bengtson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Josephine Matilda Bengaton Holmquist, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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World Events (8)
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Anders, Nils, Algot, Britt, Kjersten, Lars, Nels.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Bengtsson . In some cases this is also an Americanized form of the rare Danish and Norwegian cognate Bengtsen.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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