Brief Life History of Elijah William
When Elijah William Allen was born on 16 August 1876, in Cove, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Andrew Lee Allen Jr, was 44 and his mother, Minerva Butterfield Whittle, was 22. He married Rose Titensor on 18 September 1901, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Cache, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 17 April 1950, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Copy of Rose Lettensore Allen in household of Elijah William Allen, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- E W Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Elijah William Allen, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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Brief History of Elijah William Allen from Whittle family records
Elijah William Allen was born 16 Aug 1876 in Cove, Cache County, Utah, the third son of Andrew Lee Jr and Minerva Whittle Allen. Because he grew up in Cove and attended school there, this wa …
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