When Charles Francis Bain was born on 15 October 1914, in Springview, Keya Paha, Nebraska, United States, his father, Ivan Grant Bain, was 26 and his mother, Lola Keya Wakeman, was 23. He had at least 1 son. He lived in Gregory, South Dakota, United States in 1920 and Gregory, Gregory, South Dakota, United States in 1930. He died on 29 June 1957, in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Linn Grove Cemetery, Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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Scottish, Manx, and Irish: nickname for a fair-haired man, from Gaelic bàn, Irish bán ‘white, fair’. This surname is common in the Highlands, first recorded in Perth in 1324. It is also found as a shortened form of McBain , from Mac B(h)eathain. As a Manx name (spelled Bane) this may be a shortened form of Manx Macguilley Vane, equivalent to Irish Mac Giolla Bháin ‘son of the fair youth’. Compare Irish Kilbane .
English (northern) and Scottish: nickname for a hospitable person, from northern Middle English beyn, bayn ‘welcoming, friendly’ (Old Norse beinn ‘straight, direct’).
English (northern) and Scottish: nickname from northern Middle English bān, bain ‘bone, leg’ (Old English bān, Old Norse bein), perhaps denoting someone with a gammy leg. In northern Middle English -ā- was preserved, whereas in southern dialects (which later became standard), it was changed to -ō-.
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