Brief Life History 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 County, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1911. He died on 16 October 1972, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Memorial Redwood Mortuary and Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Tanner L. Brown, "United States Census, 1950"
- Mr. Tanner Little Brown, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Tanner Little Brown, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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
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
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.
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