Brief Life History of Grant Abbott
When Grant Abbott Brown was born on 12 December 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Raymond Owen Brown, was 30 and his mother, Emma Elizabeth Abbott, was 30. He married Darlene Helene Wagley on 28 May 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He immigrated to World in 1940 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1944. He died on 12 February 2016, in Bennion, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Grant A Brown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Utah, Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
- Grant Abbott Brown, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.
President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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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The House Grant Was Born In / Grandparents Brief Bio
However, I was born on December 12th 1918, at home, 225 Reed Ave, Salt Lake City, UT. Reed Ave runs east and west from 1st west (now 2nd) to 2nd west (now 3rd) between 6th North (now 7th) and 7th nor …
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