Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Allen was born in March 1857, in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Allen, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Hulse, was 26. He married Margaret Ann Dusold on 11 August 1877, in Kane, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Margaret Township, Ward, North Dakota, United States in 1910 and Alberta, Canada in 1916. He died on 27 March 1918, in Bow Island, County of Forty Mile No. 8, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 61, and was buried in Deering, McHenry, North Dakota, United States.
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- Henney Allen, "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916"
- Henry Allen, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- William A Allen in entry for Harlin E Showers and Myrtle Margaret Allen, "Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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 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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