When John Law was born in 1844, in Iowa, United States, his father, William Law, was 35 and his mother, Jane Silverthorn, was 29. He lived in Leadville, Lake, Colorado, United States in 1880 and Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1910. He died on 28 May 1911, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Scottish and northern English: from a Middle English personal name Law(e), a short form of Lawrence .
Scottish and northern English: topographic name for someone who lived near a hill, northern Middle English law (from Old English hlāw, which generally became low in the south and law in the north). Compare Lowe and Lew .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 羅, based on its Cantonese pronunciation, see Luo 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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