When Barbara Ella Gans was born in 1864, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Ephraim Manassa Gans, was 28 and her mother, Rachel Ann Brownfield, was 22. She married Frank Elmer Denison on 22 December 1887, in Newbern, Marion, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Franklin Township, Cass, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Atlantic, Cass, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died in 1947, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 83.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
German and Dutch:
from gans ‘goose’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who bred or tended geese, or a nickname for someone who wobbled or behaved (foolishly) like a goose, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a goose.
nickname for a healthy or strong person, from Middle Low German gans ‘whole, complete, healthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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