Brief Life History of Harry Benjamin
When Harry Benjamin Allen was born on 2 July 1891, in Crab Orchard, Johnson, Nebraska, United States, his father, Lyman John Allen, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Libby Dator, was 36. He married Rebecca Elizabeth Vanatta from 1910 to 1939, in Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Reilly Township, Nemaha, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Orosi Judicial Township, Tulare, California, United States in 1940. He died on 2 February 1967, in Orosi, Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Dinuba, Tulare, California, United States.
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- Harry A Allen, "United States Census, 1920"
- Harry Benjamin Allen, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Harry Allen, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
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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