Brief Life History of Chauncey Lewis
When Chauncey Lewis Brooks was born on 18 September 1817, in Livingston, New York, United States, his father, Benjamin Brooks, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Olive Harris, was 19. He married Hannah Casebeer on 18 March 1845, in Rochester Township, Cedar, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Fayette, Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1850. He died on 14 January 1901, in Smithfield Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Fayette, Iowa, United States.
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- Chancy Brooks, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Chauncey Lewis Brooks - Government record: birth-name: Chauncey Lewis Brooks
- Chancy Brooks, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1821
Historical Boundaries: 1821: Livingston, New York, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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