Brief Life History of Hollis Vern
When Hollis Vern Allen was born on 19 July 1905, in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Andrew Augustus Allen, was 68 and his mother, Rebecca Christina Nielsen, was 41. He married Edna Verna Harbertson on 15 March 1927, in South Weber, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Ogden City Legislative District 4, Ogden City Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940 and Uintah Election Precinct, Weber, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 23 August 1982, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Hollis V Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hollis Verne Allen - Published information: birth-name: Hollis Verne Allen
- Hollis V Allen, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1909 · The Grand Opera House of Ogden Changes its name
Known as the Orpheum Theatre, the Opera House was built in 1890 because there was no play house located in the City. People came from all around to see the shows. When the name was changed to the Orpheum, different shows came about to please the viewers tastes and ideas.
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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