Brief Life History of Fred Irvin
When Fred Irvin Brown was born on 22 September 1883, in Suez Township, Mercer, Illinois, United States, his father, Francis Marion Brown, was 23 and his mother, Frances Emily Meek, was 18. He married Vera Grace Morrison on 25 February 1920, in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. He lived in Viola, Mercer, Illinois, United States in 1940 and West Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1950. He died on 9 October 1962, at the age of 79, and was buried in Aledo, Mercer, Illinois, United States.
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- Fred I Brown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Fred I. Brown, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Fred Irvin Brown, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1893
Historical Boundaries: 1893: Polk,Iowa, United States [Spreads into Polk, Dallas, Warren, and Madison counties]
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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