When Horace Bradley Rust was born on 6 September 1836, in Danville, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, his father, Dr. William Walker Rust, was 29 and his mother, Mary Thurston Rand, was 30. He died on 26 June 1850, at the age of 13.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Swiss German (also Rüst): topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent elm tree, Rust (Old High German ruost), or in northern Germany for someone who lived by a resting place or halt along a route, from Middle Low German ruste ‘rest’.
German: habitational name from a place called Ruest in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
German: from the rare personal name Rusto (from Old High German (h)rustan ‘prepare, get ready (for military action)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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