Brief Life History of Orson Andrew
When Orson Andrew Carstensen was born on 20 June 1891, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Fredrick Carl Christian Carstensen, was 37 and his mother, Ane Marie Jensen Sahl, was 38. He married Annie Rowell on 9 February 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 27 March 1964, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Orson R Carstensen, "United States 1950 Census"
- Orson And. Carstensen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Orson Andrew Carstensen, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1911 · The Salt Lake Airport
The site for the Salt Lake International Airport started as a desolate area of the Valley that was originally used to herd sheep. A cinder-covered landing strip was subsequently created for the Great International Aviation Carnival that was held later in that same year. It brought many pioneers of the aviation industry. Aviator Glenn H. Curtiss brought his newly invented Seaplane to the carnival and demonstrated it to the public by taking off from the Great Salt Lake. It slowly grew until Charles Lindbergh visited that area. After his visit, the airfield changed into a Municipal Airport and started being a hub for most flights from New York to California. After World War II, the airport turned into an international hub for most flights in the Mountain West. In recent history, it sees around 30 million travelers each year and continues to grow in popularity by travelers to and from Utah. It became a hub for Delta Air Lines after its merger with Western Airlines.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Carsten, Ove, Sven, Viggo. German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Egon, Ingeborg, Lorenz, Siegfried.
North German, Danish, and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Carsten . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Karstensen.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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