Thomas Brush

Brief Life History of Thomas

When Thomas Brush was born about 1872, in Ohio, United States, his father, Frank Brush Or Broz, was 30 and his mother, Mary Prochaska, was 33. He lived in Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1880.

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Family Time Line

Frank Brush Or Broz
1843–1906
Mary Prochaska
1840–
Frank Brush, Jr.
1868–1939
Thomas Brush
about 1872–
James Brusch
1870–
Mary Brush
1873–
John G. Brusch
1877–
Joseph C Brush
1877–1936
Charles E. Brush
1877–
John Brush
1879–
Charles Frank Brush
1882–1947
Edward Broz
1884–1948
Rose Etta Brush
1887–1962
Broz
1889–
Otilia Brush
1891–1979

Sources (1)

  • Thomas Brush in household of Frank Brush, "United States Census, 1880"

World Events (3)

about 1872 · The First National Park

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

about 1872 · The Amnesty Act

A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.

1953

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law recognizing that Ohio was admitted into the Union, since it had previously slipped through the cracks. The official date of admittance was agreed upon as March 1, 1803, ratified as of May 19, 1953.

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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