Brief Life History of Peter
When Peter Huntsman was born on 28 February 1839, in Clark, Missouri, United States, his father, James Huntsman III, was 37 and his mother, Mary Johnston, was 37. He married Jessie Powell on 13 November 1865, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. He died on 4 February 1929, in Ely, White Pine, Nevada, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Ely, White Pine, Nevada, United States.
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- 1850 - Peter Huntsman in household of James Huntsman, "United States Census, Iowa"
- 1929 - Peter Huntsman, "Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992"
- Peter Huntsman, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): occupational name either for a hunter or a servant of a hunter, from a compound of Middle English hunte ‘the act of hunting’ (or Old English hunta ‘huntsman’) + man. In some cases the name may also arise from a late, unrecorded Old English personal name Huntmann, a compound of hunta + -mann.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Peter Huntsman, Millard County Utah Sheriff
Some days after his passing, February 5, 1929, this death notice appeared in the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: "RITES MARK PASSING OF PIONEER DEPUTY Special to The Tribune Ely, Nevada -- Funeral services were …
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