Frank R. Nairn was born in 1894 as the son of John Nairn and Ann Cranney. He married Catherine Amerine on 12 August 1929, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. He lived in New Lexington, Pike Township, Perry, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1967, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 73.
Scottish: habitational name from Nairn (Nairns) near Inverness. The placename is taken from the River Nairn, which derives from a Celtic or pre-Celtic word perhaps meaning ‘penetrating one’.
History: First mentioned in North America in the Carolina plantation records in 1698, the name appears with Thomas Nairne, a landowner on St. Helena Island. He went on to be a SC assemblyman and an Indian agent.
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