Brief Life History of John W
When John W Allen was born on 14 October 1908, in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph D. Allen, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Naylor, was 23. He married Grace Udy on 26 March 1943, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to World in 1941 and lived in Justice Precinct 1, Wichita, Texas, United States in 1940 and Riverside, Box Elder, Utah, United States for about 1 years. He died on 17 July 1979, in Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Riverside, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- John W Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
- John W Allen, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1908"
- John W. Allen, "United States Western States Marriage Index" (1943)
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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.
1914 · Hotel Brigham Built
Constructed in two phases, 1914 and 1924, Hotel Brigham was originally built to house transient railroad workers.
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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