About

YAHOO! I'm finally here. I sure was getting tired of laying around in my mommy's tummy, and I have a feeling she was ready to get me out of there, too! Here are the basics about me. My parents will add more as they learn more about me.

Ancestry

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Vital Statistics

Full name: Jonas Allen Brown
Born at: Providence St. Peter Hospital
Born on: Monday, February 21, 2005
Time: 12:30 PM
Weight: 8 pounds and 2.5 ounces
Length: 20 1/2 inchess
Gender: Male (obviously)
Delivered by: Kathleen A. Jones, CNM

Origin of the name Jonas...

Hebrew - "Dove"

February 21, 2005 - a day to remember

The Environment

In the financial world

The Dow Jones closed at 10785.22
Washington's Minimum Wage was $7.35
. . . and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread:$ 1.79
Gallon of Milk: $ 2.89
First Class Stamp: $0.37
Average New Home: $212,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Hospital Room: $500.00

Populations:

Olympia: 42,500
U.S. Population: 282,274,115

Jonas Allen shares his birthday with these other interesting people

1794 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna - Mexican government official and Army officer who won the battle of the Alamo, but lost the land known as Texas in its war of independence from his country.
1821 - Charles Scribner - Founder of the publishing house of Scribner and Sons, which brought the works of Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling to us.
1927 - Erma Bombeck - American humorist and author known for accentuating the lighter side of life's daily trials.

There have been some other notable events on this day in history

1842 - John J. Greenough, of Washington, DC, received a patent for the sewing machine.
1866 - Lucy B. Hobbs graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery becoming the first woman in America to hold the title D.D.S.
1947 - Edward Herbert Land publicly demonstrated the instant camera that would become the Polaroid Land camera.