Brief Life History of Frank
When Frank Brush, Jr. was born in 1868, in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, his father, Frank Brush Or Broz, was 25 and his mother, Mary Prochaska, was 28. He lived in Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1880. He died on 3 April 1939, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Frank Jr Brush in household of Frank Brush, "United States Census, 1880"
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1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
1870 · Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil Co. Inc. was established by John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler as an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. It was one of the first and largest multinational corporations in the world. British Petroleum acquired the Standard Oil Company in 1987, but the company still operates under its original name, with BP as a trademark.
1887 · The Michelson-Morley Experiment
In an attempt to detect a medium of space called aether, Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley started to experiment to see if there was any relative motion of matter through light waves. The result was negative and is generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the aether theory. Even though it has failed multiple times, the same type of experiment has been repeated many times with higher amounts of sensitivity to the sensors.
Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a brush maker, from Middle English brush ‘brush’ (Old French brosse ‘brushwood’).
Americanized form of German Brusch or Brüsch ‘heather, broom, brushwood’ (see Bruesch ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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