Brief Life History of Thomas W
When Thomas W Allen was born on 2 July 1886, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States, his father, John Allen, was 40 and his mother, Ann McLeod, was 37. He married Jean Rae Unsworth on 27 June 1911, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Houghton, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 25 July 1954, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States.
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- Thomas Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
- Thomas Allen, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Thomas Allen, "Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit "water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream." H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, "TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII".
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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