When Isaac Ephraim Herring was born on 21 April 1850, in Harris Grove, Harrison, Iowa, United States, his father, Isaac Herring, was 39 and his mother, Harriet Lucinda Adams, was 33. He married Lorena Jane Gardner on 18 November 1880, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States. He lived in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860 and Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1867. He died on 28 July 1915, in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
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English (London), Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring, from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring, hēring), Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .
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