When Emma Bell Allen was born on 3 February 1860, in Reedville, Washington, Oregon, United States, her father, Isaac Tidwell Allen, was 28 and her mother, Asenath Cecelia Dustin, was 30. She married Eugene West Dant on 3 March 1879, in Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Washington, Oregon, United States in 1860. She died on 28 March 1943, in Reedville, Washington, Oregon, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery, Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries - 1877: Washington, Oregon, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
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