When Walter Henry Allington Senior was born on 20 December 1873, in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Henry Allington, was 36 and his mother, Ellen Reading, was 35. He married Elizabeth Crystal Howard on 2 June 1897, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America in 1912 and lived in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 18 October 1964, in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Holladay Memorial Park, Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English (southern): habitational name from any of at least nine different places called Allington, two in Kent, three in Wiltshire, and one each in Dorset, Devon, Hampshire, and Lincolnshire. These have different origins: those in Devon, Wiltshire near Chippenham, and Kent near Maidstone are from the Old English personal name Ælla + -ingtūn meaning ‘Ælla's farm’; those in Dorset, Wiltshire near Devizes, and Lincolnshire are named with Old English ætheling ‘prince' + tūn, meaning ‘settlement of the prince’; those in Hampshire and Wiltshire near Amesbury are from the Old English personal name Ealda + tūn; and the one in Kent near Lenham is from the Old English personal name Æthelnōth + -ingtūn, meaning ‘Æthelnōth's farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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