When Daniel Hamner Wells Jr. was born on 24 November 1849, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Daniel Hanmer Wells, was 35 and his mother, Louisa Free, was 25. He married Jane McIntosh Smith on 7 August 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 66 years. He died on 19 September 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, 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: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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