Brief Life History of Roland Ricks
When Roland Ricks Allen was born on 27 January 1912, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Henry Heber Allen Jr., was 25 and his mother, Reda Ricks, was 21. He married Margaret Van Dam on 16 September 1937, in Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He lived in Swan Lake, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1930 and United States in 1949. He died on 17 December 2006, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Roland R Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
- Roland Ricks Allen, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Roland Ricks Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1916 · The Logan Library
The Logan Library was created to serve the fifty thousand citizens of Logan with the access of over two hundred thousand items for children, teens, students, and adults to check out and learn from. The library also provides several programs that are popular with the community. The library moved to its current location in 2009 and reached a milestone in items checked out in 2012, at over 1 million.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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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