Anderson, Nephi

Christian Nephi Anderson was born in Christiania (modern Oslo), Norway on 22 January 1865. His parents, Christian and Petronella Nielson, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only a few years before his birth and in 1871 they emigrated to Utah, United States. In 1886, Anderson married Asenath Tillotson and began a teaching career in Ogden and Brigham City, From 1891 to 1893 Nephi Anderson served a mission for the LDS Church in his birth country of Norway. Asenath died in January, 1904, after having three children with Nephi. In 1904, just two months following the death of...