Brief Life History of Harry Benjamin
When Harry Benjamin Allen was born on 11 May 1885, in Paris, Edgar, Illinois, United States, his father, Benjamin William Allen, was 25 and his mother, Florence Boyd Shepard, was 28. He married Mary Louise Nail on 8 August 1905, in Marshall, Clark, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 4 May 1957, in Edgar, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Edgar Cemetery, Paris Township, Edgar, Illinois, United States.
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- Harry Allen, "United States Census, 1940"
- Harry Allen, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Harry Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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