Brief Life History of Wendell Gayle
When Wendell Gayle Allen was born on 14 September 1905, in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Albert Silas Allen, was 27 and his mother, Margaret Maria Nielsen, was 30. He married Oda Juanita Larsen on 27 November 1933, in Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 17 March 1985, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Hyrum City Cemetery, Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Wendell G Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mr. Wendell Gayle Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Wendell Gayle Allen, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
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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.
1916 · The Logan Library
The Logan Library was created to serve the fifty thousand citizens of Logan with the access of over two hundred thousand items for children, teens, students, and adults to check out and learn from. The library also provides several programs that are popular with the community. The library moved to its current location in 2009 and reached a milestone in items checked out in 2012, at over 1 million.
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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