When Frederick Elbridge Drown was born on 13 July 1835, in Nelson, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, Calvin A. Drown, was 25 and his mother, Jennet Baxter, was 18. He married Josephine Phoebe Lee on 4 July 1870, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 18 August 1927, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Historic Notes: 1847: Name changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. 1856: San Francisco an Independent City.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Cornish (Cornwall and Devon): probably an altered form of Trown, itself a variant of Troon, a habitational name from one or more of several places in Cornwall with names deriving from Middle Cornish tre + goen (‘farm on the downs’), such as Troon in Camborne, Trewoon in Budock, Trewoon in Saint Mewan, Troon in Breage, Trewoon in Mullion, and Trewoone in Phillack.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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