Brief Life History of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith Anderson was born on 3 October 1855, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States. He married Anne Margrethe Nielson on 6 December 1875, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Oak Creek, Millard, Utah, United States for about 30 years. In 1890, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as farmer in Oak City, Millard, Utah, United States. He died on 6 May 1925, in Oak City, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Oak City Cemetery, Oak City, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph H Anderson in household of John Lovell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Joseph Smith Anderson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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