Brief Life History of Anna Jane
When Anna Jane Rowan was born on 25 December 1852, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, Andrew Rowan, was 28 and her mother, Letitia Smith, was 23. She married Joseph Mortimer Brown on 16 August 1872, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1880 and Valverde, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1900. She died on 23 November 1935, in Monterey Park, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Annie J Brown in household of Joseph W Brown, "United States Census, 1900"
- Annia Jane Brown, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Annie J. Rowen, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Arapahoe, Kansas Territory, United States 1859: Montana, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1861: Colorado Territory, United States 1861: Arapahoe, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: Arapahoe, Colorado, United States 1902: Denver, Colorado, United States [Denver is a City-County]
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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
Irish: from Ó Ruadháin or Ó Ruaidhín, both meaning ‘descendant of Ruadhán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’. See also Rooney .
Irish: from Ó Ruadhacháin, ‘son of Ruadhachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’ (also used as a placename and Anglicized as Roughan). Compare also Rogan (Ó Ruadhagáin), of which may be a variant, both it and Ó Ruadhacháin being found in Ulster and Connacht.
Irish: from Ó Robhacháin, the name of a scattered ecclesiastical family, found in Clare in the 16th and 17th centuries. The personal name was earlier Reabhachán ‘skillful, artful’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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