When Francis Marion Shurtliff was born on 23 January 1851, in Springville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Luman Andros Shurtliff, was 43 and his mother, Altamira Gaylord, was 34. He married Alta Pricilla Hancock on 22 November 1872, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1891 and Logan, Cache, Utah, United States for about 30 years. In 1900, at the age of 49, his occupation is listed as superintendent railroad car repair in Baker, Oregon, United States. He died on 29 January 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
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English: variant of Shircliff .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesFRANCIS MARION SHURTLIFF (Written in 1937)` Francis Marion Shurtliff, the third child of Luman Andros and Altamira Gaylord Shurtliff, was born during the great Mormon exodus while his parents w …
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