When John Shelton Howard was born on 9 March 1854, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Howard, was 34 and his mother, Ann Shelton, was 37. He married Josephine Wilhelmine Jensen on 12 September 1878, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Aston, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 6 March 1923, in Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Ririe Shelton Cemetery, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
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.
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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