When James Arthur Mohn was born on 10 May 1875, in Logan, Illinois, United States, his father, Christopher Columbus Mohn, was 28 and his mother, Mary Matilda Munyon, was 24. He married Etta May Campbell on 2 December 1897, in Logan, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Broadwell, Logan, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Chatham Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 7 June 1969, in Chatham, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Chatham, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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German:
metonymic occupational name for a grower of poppies, from Middle High German mān ‘poppy’.
from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Monrad, composed of the elements mun ‘spirit, thought’ + rāt ‘counsel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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