Allen Lee White

Brief Life History of Allen Lee

When Allen Lee White was born on 23 February 1879, in Piqua, Miami, Ohio, United States, his father, William F White, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Marietta, was 29. He married Bessie Bell Wissinger on 12 April 1907, in Montgomery, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Montgomery, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 12 August 1939, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Piqua, Miami, Ohio, United States.

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Allen Lee White
1879–1939
Bessie Bell Wissinger
1881–1949
Marriage: 12 April 1907
John W White
1908–1952
Ruthe E White
1909–1909
Dorothy L White
1912–
Edna M White
1918–
Carl Alvin White
1918–1993

Sources (17)

  • Allen White in household of Wm F White, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Lee Allen White, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Allen H. White, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

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.

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.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.

Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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