Brief Life History of John Dalziel
When John Dalziel McLean was born on 21 April 1860, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John William McLean, was 35 and his mother, Marion Geddes Lindsay, was 34. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died about 1960, at the age of 101.
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- John Mclean in household of John Mclean, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- John Dalziel McLean, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- John Mcshane in household of William Camp, "United States Census, 1870"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
Name Meaning
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Eáin, ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) John’. Compare Irish McAloon and McGlone .
History: This is the name of a major Scottish clan traditionally associated with the island of Mull, which claims descent from Gille Eáin na Tuaidh (‘Gillean of the Battleaxe’), who lived in the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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