When Hans Opheim Haggen was born on 5 January 1885, in Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway, his father, John Olesen Opheim Haggen, was 33 and his mother, Sofie Hansdatter, was 32. He married Nelly Margaret Nikoline Torgersen on 14 May 1923, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Ellis Island, New York City, New York, United States in 1903 and lived in Meeteetse, Park, Wyoming, United States in 1910 and Election District 13 Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died on 8 December 1959, in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1888: Fremont, Wyoming Territory, United States 1890: Big Horn, Wyoming Territory, United States 1890: Big Horn, Wyoming, United States
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Knute, Lars, Selmer.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of about twenty farmsteads, chiefly in Hordaland, from Old Norse Uppheimr, a compound of uppi ‘up’ + heimr ‘farmstead’ (i.e. a farmstead situated on higher ground).
German: habitational name from an unidentified place, possibly a shortened form of Oppenheim (Rhineland-Palatinate).
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