Brief Life History of Johan Erik
When Johan Erik Christiansen was born on 29 September 1851, in København, Hovedstaden, Denmark, his father, Christen Christiansen, was 26 and his mother, Christine Maria Hedvig Bruun, was 26. He married Dorcas Georgine Pedersen on 25 October 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 21 December 1884, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Jno A Christianson in household of Mary A L Christianson, "United States Census, 1860"
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- John Erick Christiansen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
1859 · Copenhagen Waterworks
The Copenhagen Waterworks was the first waterworks in Denmark and served the community until 1951. It was one of the first buildings to be built outside Copenhagen's old city walls.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Niels, Nels, Holger, Bent, Carsten, Lars, Per, Sven, Ejner, Johan, Jorgen.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christian . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the Norwegian and Danish variant Kristiansen .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, or North German patronymic Christensen , a cognate of 1 above. Compare Christianson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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1853: John E. Forsgren Company. Christian Christiansen, wife Christine and son Johan Erik in this company
Transcript Transcript for "Christian Nielsen letter to Carl Nielsen, 27 April 1856.": Here was a very large camp of English, Welsh. Americans and Danes etc. and here were also many hundreds of wagons …
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