Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Brown was born on 25 January 1827, in Newbury Center, Geauga, Ohio, United States, his father, Nathaniel Brown, was 33 and his mother, Avis Hill, was 26. He married Amy Elizabeth Hancock on 1 December 1851, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Wallsburg, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1866 and Union Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 20 December 1906, in Charleston, Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Charleston Cemetery, Charleston, Wasatch, Utah, United States.
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- Geo W. Brown, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: George Washington Brown - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: George Washington Brown
- U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
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1829
Incorporated in 1829.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1848 · Fire Destroys the Temple
On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
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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George Washington Brown George Washington Brown was born 25 January 1827, in Newberry, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He was the second living child of Nathaniel and Avis Fuller Hill Brown. There were t …
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