Brief Life History of James L
When James L Allen was born on 16 December 1863, in Eudora, Douglas, Kansas, United States, his father, Joseph Richardson Allen, was 31 and his mother, Emaline Pearson, was 20. He married Eunice P Outland on 27 January 1886, in Douglas, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Guthrie Township, Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 October 1933, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Summit View Cemetery, Guthrie Township, Logan, Oklahoma, United States.
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- James Allen in household of Joseph Allen, "United States Census, 1870"
- James L Allen, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- James Henry Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
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.
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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