When Alvin Ransom Brown was born on 4 February 1874, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, his father, Orville Ransom Brown, was 23 and his mother, Jane Mae Rouse, was 22. He married Mary Ling Turnbull on 5 March 1907, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Douglas, Colorado, United States for about 5 years and Clyde, Butte, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 5 December 1939, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Historical Boundaries - 1881: Custer, Idaho Territory, United States; 1890: Custer, Idaho, United States; 1937: Butte, Idaho, United States
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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