Tanner Little Brown

10 September 1892–16 October 1972 (Age 80)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Tanner Little

When Tanner Little Brown was born on 10 September 1892, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, James Tanner Brown, was 29 and his mother, Mariam Martha Little, was 27. He married Dorothy Beatrice Place on 13 June 1917, in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Medicine Hat, Cypress, Alberta, Canada in 1911. He died on 16 October 1972, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Tanner Little Brown
1892–1972
Dorothy Beatrice Place
1894–1963
Marriage: 13 June 1917
James Tanner Brown
1918–1991
Doreen Caroline Brown
1920–1997
Benjamin Ralph Brown
1922–1979
Dorothy Beatrice Brown
1927–2006

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    13 June 1917Cardston, Alberta, Canada
    • Children

    (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Age 4
    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
    1896 · Utah becomes a state
    Age 4
    After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
    1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
    Age 21
    The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Dunn
    Brunson
    Browning
    Browne
    Burnett
    Erjavec
    Borron
    Broun

    Sources (25)

    • Tanner L. Brown, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
    • Tanner in entry for James Tanner Brown and Leah Hale, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
    • Tanner L Brown, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"

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