sentences:  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.They settled first in Coalville, Utah and later in Ogden, Utah.In 1886, Anderson married Asenath Tillotson and began a teaching career in Ogden and Brigham City, Utah.