Brief Life History of Thomas Harvey
When Thomas Harvey Young was born on 8 May 1861, in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Young, was 25 and his mother, Martha Webb, was 40. He died on 19 January 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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Sources (27)
- Thomas Young in household of Thomas Young, "United States Census, 1880"
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Thomas Harvey Young, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865 · Cornerstone is Laid for the Tabernacle
In May 1865, Brigham Young placed the cornerstone for the Tabernacle building. The work was delayed because of the construction the railroad. The walls of the Tabernacle begun in 1876. The building was first used in 1881.
1877 · Brigham Young's Last Public Sermon
In 1877, Brigham Young gave his last public sermon in Brigham City.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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