Brief Life History of John Haskell
When John Haskell Woodbury was born on 11 September 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Thomas Hobart Woodbury, was 23 and his mother, Catherine Rebecca Haskell, was 29. He married Sarah Alexandrina Bray on 10 May 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 5, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 18 December 1935, in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- John Hurd Woodbury in household of Harrison Bray Woodbury, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- BIRTH & BAPTISM: LDS CHURCH RECORDS - JOHN HASKELL WOODBURY Salt Lake 7th Ward born 11 SEP 1845 (NAUVOO), baptized 21 MAR 1854
- MARRIAGE: 10 MAY 1870 SARAH ALEXINE BRAY AND JOHN HASKELL WOODBURY
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846 · First Nauvoo Temple Dedicated
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset and Devon): habitational name from Woodbury in Devon, named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + byrig, dative of burg ‘fortress’, or from either of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire placename has the same origin as Woodbury in Devon. Woodborough in Wiltshire is named with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
History: John Woodbury emigrated from Somerset, England, to Gloucester, MA, in 1623.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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