When Joseph Franklin Allen was born on 14 April 1875, in Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States, his father, Peter Mormon Allen, was 27 and his mother, Eleanor Thomas, was 25. He married Ella Nelson on 23 March 1899, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Sunny Ridge Election Precinct, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 2 August 1967, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Kohlerlawn Cemetery, Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1882: Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1885: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Bannock, Idaho, United States
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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.
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