Brief Life History of Alvira D
When Alvira D Brown was born on 27 January 1853, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Cornelius Brown, was 51 and her mother, Sarah Hamer, was 36. She married James G Kenney about 1874, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 6, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Denver, Colorado, United States in 1910. She died on 9 August 1937, at the age of 84.
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- Elvira J Kenney in household of Jas G Kenney, "United States Census, 1880"
- Elvira D Brown, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
- Alvira Trendey in household of Sarah Trendey, "United States Census, 1870"
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1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1854: Kansas Territory, United States 1855: Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Leavenworth, Kansas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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