When William Brigham Boren was born on 11 March 1845, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Beverly Collins Boren, was 25 and his mother, Mary Frances Mathis, was 30. He married Fannie Elizabeth Mee on 25 January 1868, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1900. He died on 8 January 1914, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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Swedish (also Borén): ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + the adjectival suffix -én/-en, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Boreen and Borin .
Polish (Boreń): from a pet form of the personal names like Borzysław (see Bora 1).
Probably also an Americanized form of German Born .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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