When William A. Linn was born on 28 October 1814, in Monroe, Ohio, United States, his father, Joshua Thomas Linn, was 23 and his mother, Rachel Warford Hess, was 20. He married Malinda Brock in 1835, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Harrison Township, Wells, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 March 1862, in Wells, Indiana, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Bluffton, Harrison Township, Wells, Indiana, United States.
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Scottish: variant of Lynn .
German: habitational name from a place called Linn, named with lin ‘swamp, bog, marsh’.
German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, Linto, formed with Old High German lind(i) ‘soft’.
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