When Charlotta Bengtson was born on 15 August 1848, in Elgarås, Skaraborg, Sweden, her father, Erik Bengtson, was 28 and her mother, Anna Greta Erickson, was 37. She married Anders Gustaf Warnicke. She immigrated to Wyoming, Otoe, Nebraska, United States in 1866. She died on 8 September 1866, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Nebraska, United States.
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Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Stockholm.
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Anders, Nils, Algot, Britt, Kjersten, Lars, Nels.
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Bengtsson . In some cases this is also an Americanized form of the rare Danish and Norwegian cognate Bengtsen.
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