Brief Life History of Lewis Orson
When Lewis Orson Brown was born on 5 March 1924, in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States, his father, Alvin Wilson Brown, was 57 and his mother, Beulah May Matteson, was 41. He married Marjorie Davie on 19 May 1948, in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States. He lived in Maple Grove-Franklin, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 26 October 2010, in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Gibbonsville, Lemhi, Idaho, United States.
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- Lewis O Brown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lewis O. Brown, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- Lewis Orson Brown, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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