When John A. Long was born in March 1858, in Benton Township, Howell, Missouri, United States, his father, Isaac Long, was 24 and his mother, Dianah Wells, was 28. He married Emily Jane Smith on 11 September 1879, in Howell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Bayou Township, Ozark, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Bakersfield, Ozark, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died after 1930, in Howell, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1870: Ozark, Missouri, United States
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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