Dora Brand

Brief Life History of Dora

When Dora Brand was born on 28 February 1879, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Brand, was 34 and her mother, Mary Bulless, was 28. She lived in Brightwater, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She died on 28 November 1890, in Carl Junction, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 11.

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Family Time Line

Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Brand
1844–1926
Mary Bulless
1850–1935
Julia Brand
1868–1876
James Calvin Brand
1873–1952
George W Brand
1870–1951
Ruery Brand
1872–1872
Ida May Brand
1875–1958
John Robert Brand
1877–1953
Dora Brand
1879–1890
Della Brand
1880–1961
William August Brand
1882–1959
Henry E Brand
1884–1937
Frank Brand
1885–1885
Edward W Brand
1887–1948
Grover Cleveland Brand
1888–1972
Fredrick William Brand II
1891–1976
Mary Louise Brand
1895–1959

Sources (2)

  • Dora Brand in household of T W Brand, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Dora Brand - Individual or family possessions: Handwritten information: birth-name: Dora Brand

World Events (7)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, North German, Scandinavian, Dutch, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from the ancient Germanic personal name Brando, Old Norse Brandr, a short form of various compound names containing the element brand ‘sword’ (a derivative of brinnan ‘to flash’), of which the best known is Hildebrand . There is placename evidence for Brant(a) as an Old English personal name; however, the Middle English personal name Brand was probably introduced to England from Old Norse.

German: variant of Brandt 1 and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.

Swedish and Danish: ornamental name or nickname from brand ‘fire’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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