When Lars Christensen was born on 12 March 1857, his father, Anders Christian Christensen, was 31 and his mother, Maren Kathrine Larsdatter, was 31. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1863 and lived in Farstrup, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark in 1860. He died on 31 October 1925, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 68.
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The Copenhagen Waterworks was the first waterworks in Denmark and served the community until 1951. It was one of the first buildings to be built outside Copenhagen's old city walls.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Bent, Anders, Thor, Jorgen, Nils, Einer, Viggo, Folmer.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christen . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Kristensen . Compare Christenson and Christianson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWritten by Dean and Afton Christensen circa 1995 especially for Boyd and Loyd Mortensen, much loved sons of Dean’s sister, Hazel. Actually Manasseh began in Staun, Aalborg, Denmark with the birth o …
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