When Howard Ralph Nairn was born on 16 September 1894, in Pawnee Rock, Barton, Kansas, United States, his father, John Asher Nairn, was 39 and his mother, Susan Ellen Neese, was 21. He married Bessie Valeria Bloom in June 1915, in Pawnee Rock, Barton, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marine Election Precinct, Snohomish, Washington, United States in 1940 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1962. He died in 1962, at the age of 68, and was buried in Lake Forest Park, King, Washington, United States.
Scottish: habitational name from Nairn (Nairns) near Inverness. The placename is taken from the River Nairn, which derives from a Celtic or pre-Celtic word perhaps meaning ‘penetrating one’.
History: First mentioned in North America in the Carolina plantation records in 1698, the name appears with Thomas Nairne, a landowner on St. Helena Island. He went on to be a SC assemblyman and an Indian agent.
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