Brief Life History of Sherman
When Sherman Brown was born in 1865, in La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, his father, Seth Brown, was 42 and his mother, Diana Bell, was 28. He lived in Plumb Township, Wabaunsee, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Burlingame, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 28 January 1929, at the age of 64, and was buried in Burlingame, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Sherman Brown in household of C L Brown, "Kansas State Census, 1895"
- Sherman S. Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
- Shermon Brown in household of Annie Brown, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1869
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Osage, Kansas, United States
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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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