Brief Life History of Nelson
When Nelson Herrick was born on 6 April 1829, in Nelson, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, Lemuel Herrick, was 37 and his mother, Sally Judd, was 37. He married Harriet Helen Sprague on 1 April 1852. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 19 March 1861, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Nelson Herrick, "United States Census, 1860"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: from the Old Norse personal name Eiríkr, Old Danish, Old Swedish Erik, itself from Proto-Scandinavian ain- ‘one, select’ + rík- ‘rule(r)’ + prosthetic H-.
Irish (Cork): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEirc ‘descendant of Erc’, a personal name meaning ‘speckled, dark red’ or ‘salmon’, and borne by a Christian saint. In Munster and Ulster this name has been changed to Harkin .
History: The English poet Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was the son of a wealthy London goldsmith, whose family had a long history in the town of Leicester. DNA analysis suggests that the modern surname is monogenetic, i.e. from a single eponymous bearer. The earliest known bearer of the name in Leicester was John Eirich, recorded as a burgess there in 1211. Leicester was one of the headquarters of the Viking army that conquered and settled the eastern midlands in the late 9th century, leading to the English adoption of many Old Norse personal names, such as Eirikr, as personal names. The initial aspirate is first recorded in the name of Nicholas Heyryke, recorded as a Leicester burgess in 1524.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Nelson Herrick & Harriet Helen Sprague
by Eliza Ann Herrick Nelson Herrick [was] born 6 April, 1829, at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, the son of Lemuel Herrick and Sally (Sarah) Judd. He was the tenth child of a family of eleven, and w …
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