Orson Allen

Brief Life History of Orson

When Orson Allen was born on 26 November 1881, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, Isaac Morley Allen, was 32 and his mother, Harriet Amelia Squire, was 26. He married Elizabeth Jane "Janie" Russell on 8 November 1905, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 7 November 1959, in Alhambra, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Larkin Sunset Lawn Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Orson Allen
1881–1959
Elizabeth Jane "Janie" Russell
1883–1950
Marriage: 8 November 1905
Melvin Orson Allen
1907–2004
Lester Russell Allen
1908–1982
Vernon Leon Allen
1909–1975
Lawrence Verl Allen
1911–1994
Earl Donald Allen
1913–1992
Elva Ruth Allen
1915–1989
Floyd Ray Allen
1917–2005
Lloyd Jay Allen
1917–2015
Clyde Marion Allen
1920–1944

Sources (86)

  • Irson Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Orson Allen, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Orson Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1891

EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER Mario Pajaro “Chakar” Chakarov BIRTH unknown Skopje, North Macedonia DEATH 26 Sep 1891 Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA BURIAL Larkin Sunset Lawn Cemetery Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 187513590 · View Source

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

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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