Brief Life History of Blair Lee
When Blair Lee Brown was born on 22 May 1905, in Laytonsville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, his father, Thomas John Brown, was 51 and his mother, Maggie Elta Allnutt, was 38. He married Margaret Leona Bryan on 12 March 1926, in District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1920 and Colesville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States for about 20 years. He died in December 1985, in Burtonsville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Burtonsville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States.
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- Blair L Brown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Blair L Brown, "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950"
- Blair L Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1906 · Licencing Butchers
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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