Brief Life History of John Mason
When John Mason Brown was born on 23 October 1873, in Willailla, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Logan Brown, was 38 and his mother, Cynthia Margaret Cummins, was 31. He married Serilda Ellen Harness on 21 December 1891, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States in 1935 and Magisterial District 3, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 20 May 1961, in Berea, Madison, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Providence Cemetery, Quail, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States.
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- John M Brown, "United States Census, 1910"
- J. M. Brown, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- John Mason Brown, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1888
Historical Boundaries 1888: Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States
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.
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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