Brief Life History of Norman McLeod
When Norman McLeod Allen was born on 11 April 1883, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States, his father, John Allen, was 37 and his mother, Ann McLeod, was 33. He married Emma Idella Barnes on 21 November 1914, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He lived in Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 9 May 1942, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Southfield, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
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- Doctor Norman Allen, "United States Census, 1940"
- Morman Allen, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Norman W. Allen, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1884 · Largest Island Park in the Nation
Belle Isle Park is a 982-acre island park in the Detroit River between Michigan and Ontario. Belle Isle is the largest city-owned island park in the United States, and it is connected to mainland Detroit by the MacArthur Bridge. It's home to the Belle Isle Aquarium, the Belle Isle Conservatory, the Belle Isle Nature Center, the Detroit Boat Club, the James Scott Memorial Fountain, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a municipal golf course, a half-mile swimming beach, and numerous monuments.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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