When Ezra Leroy Anderson was born on 5 January 1890, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Jeppe Anderson, was 24 and his mother, Emma Ann Williams, was 20. He married Sarah Althera Harris on 15 September 1910, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Utah, United States for about 5 years. In 1925, his occupation is listed as contractor/carpenter in Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 26 July 1935, in Sugar City, Madison, Idaho, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
Historical Boundaries: 1893: Fremont, Idaho, United States
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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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