Andrew Lee Allen Jr

Brief Life History of Andrew Lee

When Andrew Lee Allen Jr was born on 16 August 1832, in Cattaraugus, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, his father, Andrew Lee Allen, was 40 and his mother, Clarinda Knapp, was 30. He married Minerva Butterfield Whittle on 4 March 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900 and Cache, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 8 June 1918, in Cove, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Lee Allen Jr
1832–1918
Minerva Butterfield Whittle
1854–1929
Marriage: 4 March 1872
Andrew Thomas Allen
1872–1959
Sidney Almond Allen
1874–1887
Elijah William Allen
1876–1950
Minerva Olive Allen
1878–1970
David Kimball Allen
1880–1952
Solomon Whittle Allen
1882–1975
Charles Ephraim Allen
1884–1959
Clara Allen
1886–
Elsie Percinda Allen
1886–1969
Rosanna Allen
1888–1972
Isaac Walter Allen
1889–1962
Aaron Moses Allen
1892–1905
James Ether Allen
1894–1988

Sources (54)

  • Andrew Allen in household of Chas Allen, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Andrew Lee Allen - Individual or family possessions: birth: about 1832; Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
  • Andrew Allen, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1839 · Nauvoo is Settled

After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.

1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World

William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.

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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Andrew L. ALLEN - Pioneers & Prominent Men

book: PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN OF UTAH, Frank Esshom, 1913 ALLEN, Andrew Lee (son of Elijah ALLEN, born 1763, and Mehitable HALL, both of New Hampshire). He was born Nov 24, 1791, Limeric Parso …

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