When James Leland Anderson was born on 6 September 1904, in Salem, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, Joseph Jeppe Anderson, was 38 and his mother, Emma Ann Williams, was 34. He married Rubye Thelma Westerson on 1 July 1928, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 January 1993, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 88.
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Swedish-Norwegian union was legally dissolved. Norway became a free country in 1905. Danish Prince, Carl Fredrik, became King of Norway, and chose as his name, King Håkon VII. From then on the king was a titular head only.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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