Brief Life History of Joel Goodman
When Joel Goodman Brown was born on 11 May 1883, in Washington, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Franklin Brown, was 19 and his mother, Melvania Viola WILLIAMS, was 15. He married Laura Belle Nelson about 1907, in Crawford, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons. He lived in Vineyard Township, Washington, Arkansas, United States in 1930 and Dripping Springs, Crawford, Arkansas, United States in 1942. He died on 23 April 1945, in Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Evansville, Washington, Arkansas, United States.
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- J Goodman Brown, "United States Census, 1930"
- Joe Goodman Brown, "Arkansas, Sebastian County Births and Deaths, 1877-1963"
- Joel W Brown, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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