Brief Life History of Joseph Leroy
When Joseph Leroy Anderson was born on 2 March 1893, in Benjamin, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Niels August Anderson, was 35 and his mother, Jensine Mikkelsen, was 35. He married Annie LaVern Fairbanks on 18 February 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Sweet Grass, Montana, United States in 1917 and lived in Alberta, Canada in 1906. He died on 29 October 1948, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 55, and was buried in Temple Hill Cemetery, Raymond, County of Warner No. 5, Alberta, Canada.
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- Joseph Leroy Anderson, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Joseph Leroy Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Jay Leroy Anderson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1895
Historical Boundaries 1895: Sweet Grass, Montana, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
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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