Merle Maeser Allen

Brief Life History of Merle Maeser

When Merle Maeser Allen was born on 4 August 1898, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, his father, Warner Hoopes Allen, was 31 and his mother, Frances Busby Peterson, was 27. He married Centenna Haymore on 6 October 1920, in Chino Valley, Yavapai, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1995 and Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1996. He died on 24 March 1997, in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Merle Maeser Allen
1898–1997
Centenna Haymore
1901–1960
Marriage: 6 October 1920
Adonna Bernice Allen
1921–2010
Tenna Joan Allen
1924–2014

Sources (51)

  • Allen Allen, "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940"
  • Merle Maeser Allen, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
  • Merle Allen, "Arizona, Marriages, 1865-1949"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

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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