Brief Life History of Nora
When Nora Brown was born on 7 May 1915, in Raymond, County of Warner No. 5, Alberta, Canada, her father, John Milton Brown, was 48 and her mother, Annie Eliza Taylor, was 38. She married Vincent Darrow Schow on 23 December 1942, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1926 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 May 2002, in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lehi City Cemetery, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Nora Schow, "United States 1950 Census"
- Nora B Schow, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Nora Schow in entry for Austin S Brown, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch
The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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