Brief Life History of Horace Wells
When Horace Wells Brown was born in 1840, in Coxsackie, Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States, his father, Isaac Brown, was 30 and his mother, Juliaette Adams, was 27. He married Josephine Augusta Godfrey on 5 October 1864, in Greene, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States in 1860. He died in 1899, in Coxsackie, Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Coxsackie, Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States.
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- Horace W Brown in household of Isaac Brown, "United States Census, 1860"
- Horace Wells Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Horace Wells Brown -
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
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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