Brief Life History of Laurence Fritchoff
When Laurence Fritchoff Lind was born on 13 February 1885, in Lynn, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, John Peter Andersson Lind, was 42 and his mother, Emma Christine Norberg, was 29. He married Otilia Sophia Carlson on 13 October 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Box Elder, Utah, United States for about 15 years and Junction Election Precinct, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 7 December 1963, in Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Lynn, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Larnce Fritchoff Lind, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: Laurence Fritchoff Lind - birth-name: Laurence A Lynd
- Lawrence Friedjiof Lind, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
Scandinavian, English, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, Scandinavian and Middle English lind. As a Swedish name, it is often of ornamental origin.
North German and Danish: habitational name from any of various places called with Lind ‘lime tree’.
South German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a gentle, mild, tolerant man, from Middle High German lint, linde, Yiddish lind ‘gentle, mild’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The Anders Anderson family moved to Lynn, Utah in April 1893 from Sweden. Grandpa John Peter Lind had paid their fare from Sweden. The family consisted of Anders, his wife, Hilda, Selma and Gustave …
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