Alonzo F Brown

Brief Life History of Alonzo F

Alonzo F Brown was born on 1 May 1819, in United States. He married Mary Ann Beavan about 1849, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Brighton, Sacramento, California, United States in 1870 and Healdsburg, Sonoma, California, United States in 1880. He died on 6 February 1899, in San Ardo, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in San Ardo, Monterey, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alonzo F Brown
1819–1899
Mary Ann Beavan
1825–1902
Marriage: about 1849
Martha C. Brown
1849–
Charlotte Brown
about 1863–
Benjamin F Brown
1851–1923
Alonzo Theodore Brown
1854–1901
Perry Leondus Brown
1856–1922
Hannah M Brown
1858–1864
Erastus James Brown
1859–
Mary A Brown
1861–1908
Harlow Cornelius Brown
1864–1934
William L. Brown
1867–1929
Charles E. Brown
1870–1878

Sources (26)

  • Alonzo Brown in household of James Bevan, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Alonzo Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Alonzo Brown, "California Great Registers, 1850-1920"

World Events (8)

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1820 · Making Land more affordable

"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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