Brief Life History of Orson
When Orson Allen was born on 18 November 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Land Nuttle Allen, was 39 and his mother, Hannah Jackson, was 39. He married Ellen Elizabeth Cardwell on 17 October 1888, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 16 July 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Orson Allen in household of William Allen, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Orson Allen - birth: 18 November 1864; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
- Orson Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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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