When Finley Carroll Free was born on 7 July 1838, in Caldwell, Missouri, United States, his father, Absalom Pennington Free Sr, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Strait, was 34. He married Julia Delecta Young on 13 March 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 22 April 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
English: nickname or status name from Middle English fre ‘free’ (Old English frēo), with reference to either tenurial status (‘free born’) or to character (‘noble, generous, open-handed’).
Irish: variant of Freeman .
Americanized form of Swiss German and German Frei and Frey .
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