Brief Life History of Kenneth Grant
When Kenneth Grant Allen was born on 29 August 1908, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Louis William Allen, was 27 and his mother, Maud May Jenkins, was 27. He married Myrtle Aileen Peterson on 12 February 1936. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Montebello Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 11 February 1974, in Pico Rivera, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Antioch, Contra Costa, California, United States.
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- Kenneth Grant Allen in household of Louis William Allen, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Kenneth G Allen, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Kenneth Grant Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1909 · The Cathedral of the Madeleine
The Cathedral of the Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church that was completed in 1909 and currently serves as a cathedral for the Catholic community in Salt Lake City. It is the only cathedral in the U.S. under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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