When Joseph Smith Herring was born on 8 January 1842, in Scott, Illinois, United States, his father, Isaac Herring, was 31 and his mother, Harriet Lucinda Adams, was 25. He married Caroline Amelia Petersen on 19 December 1873, in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860 and Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 4 August 1913, in Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Iowa, United States 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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