Brief Life History of Moroni
When Moroni Shipley was born on 25 December 1846, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, John Shipley, was 35 and his mother, Mary Polly Shugars, was 22. He married Hannah Cole on 26 April 1893, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880 and Birch Creek, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 17 December 1931, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Moroni Shipley, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Moroni Shipley, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Marain Shipley, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1941"
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1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire): habitational name from any of various places called Shipley, in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, Durham, Northumberland, Sussex, and elsewhere, all named with Old English scēap ‘sheep’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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