When Olivia "Ollie" Alger was born on 23 June 1847, in Florence, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, her father, John Alger, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Ann Pulsipher, was 22. She married Philip Louis Oakden in October 1864, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States in 1900 and St. George, Washington, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 22 November 1930, in Cleveland, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cleveland, Emery, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English: from the Middle English personal name Alger. Pronounced with a soft g it is from Old French Alg(i)er, Aug(i)er (ancient Germanic Adalgari, composed of the elements adal ‘noble’ + gāri ‘spear’); see Auger . Pronounced with a hard g, it is a variant of Algar .
Scottish and English: in Scotland, Alger may be a variant of Algeo .
German: from a shortened form of the ancient Germanic personal name Adalgar (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesA little west of Main Street on Third South [Salt Lake City], my father owed an acre of land and there I was born on the twentieth day of December, 1855, the sixth child of John Alger and Sarah Pulsip …
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