Brief Life History of Susannah or Susan
When Susannah or Susan Allen was born on 11 April 1883, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States, her father, John Allen, was 37 and her mother, Ann McLeod, was 33. She married John Martin Broan on 11 October 1911, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 27 December 1926, in Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States.
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- Susan Brown in household of John M Brown, "United States Census, 1920"
- Susannah Allen, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Susan Allen, "Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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