John Carson Allen

Brief Life History of John Carson

When John Carson Allen was born on 11 February 1912, in Filer, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Allen, was 37 and his mother, Emma Carson, was 33. He married Dona Lavere Egbert on 14 December 1944, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Filer Election Precinct, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 2 July 1994, in Filer, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Filer, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States.

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John Carson Allen
1912–1994
Dona Lavere Egbert
1926–2006
Marriage: 14 December 1944

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  • John C Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Birth Index
  • John Carson Allen, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

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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.

1913 · The Seventeenth Amendment

The Seventeenth Amendment allows the people of each state to elect their own Senators instead of having the state legislature assign them.

1935 · The FBI is Established

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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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