Brief Life History of William
When William Brown was born on 15 November 1852, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Brown, was 23 and his mother, Margaret Jane Messick, was 19. He married Mary Ann Lutz about 1875, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in St. Clair Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 23 June 1934, in Fayette Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- William Brown in household of John Brown, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Brown - birth: November 1852; Pennsylvania, United States
- William Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
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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