Brief Life History of Nathaniel Henry
When Nathaniel Henry Felt was born on 6 February 1816, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathaniel Felt, was 43 and his mother, Hannah Reeves, was 41. He married Eliza Ann Preston on 3 October 1839, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 27 January 1887, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Nathaniel H Felt, "United States Census, 1850"
- Nathaniel H. Felt, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Nathaniel H Felt, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1821 · Essex Historical Society
On June 11, 1821, the Essex Historical Society was incorporated.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for someone who made, worked with, sold, or perhaps wore felt, from Middle English felt ‘felt’. Compare Felter .
German: rare variant of Feld ‘field, area of open country’, or an Americanized form of its cognate Velt.
Swedish: rare variant of Feldt , a cognate of 2 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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