When Douglas Gross Brian was born on 27 April 1895, in Lewisville, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, his father, Daniel Gross Brian, was 24 and his mother, May Marion Marler, was 17. He married Annie Elizabeth Williamson on 13 September 1917, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lewisville, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Farr West, Weber, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 22 March 1967, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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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.
The Ogden Utah Sugar Factory harvested sugar from beets because sugar cane was hard to grow in northern Utah. During World War, it was hard to get sugar beet seeds, so the company started to harvest the seeds of the beets they were using. The Company merged with a factory in Logan to create the Amalgamated Sugar Company which is still operational today.
The American Can Company of Utah Building Complex was built downtown Ogden on 20th and Lincoln Ave. It employed over 450 people and produced millions of cans of food from crops of local farmers. It was closed in 1979 but was added as a Historic Place in 2005 to the National Register. It has also become a headquarters for Amer Sports.
Irish and English: variant of Bryant .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Briain, see O'Brien .
French: unflattering nickname from Old Occitan brian ‘mite, maggot’, by extension brimborion, possibly denoting a very small man.
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