John Benjamin Allen

Brief Life History of John Benjamin

When John Benjamin Allen was born on 3 June 1885, in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Allen, was 37 and his mother, Mary Jane Jones, was 30. He married Martha Louise Gibbs on 1 December 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Fielding, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1900 and Portage Election Precinct, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 24 March 1957, in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Benjamin Allen
1885–1957
Martha Louise Gibbs
1890–1981
Marriage: 1 December 1916
Baby Boy Allen
1918–1918
Eloise Allen
1919–2004
Mary Venna Allen
1921–2011
Isaac Jay Allen
1923–2002
Helen Letitia Allen
1925–1931
Zona Allen
1930–2012

Sources (47)

  • John Benjamin Allen, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • John B Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • John B Allen, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1890 · The Tabernacle is Dedicated

On October 26, 1890, the Tabernacle was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

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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John Benjamin and Martha Louisa (Gibbs) Allen

John Benjamin and Martha Louisa (Gibbs) Allen By Mary (Allen) Price John Benjamin Allen was born on June 3, 1885 in East Portage, the son of Joseph and Jane (Jones) Allen. Martha Louisa Gibbs wa …

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