Brief Life History of Emily M
When Emily M Brown was born in 1848, in Henry, Illinois, United States, her father, Oliver Wolcott Brown, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Maria Kent, was 18. She married Stephen Martydale Hurd about 1866, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Wethersfield Township, Henry, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Kewanee, Henry, Illinois, United States for about 10 years.
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- Emily Hurd, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Emily M. Brown - Government record: birth-name: Emily M. Brown
- Emily Brown, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Henry, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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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