Brief Life History of James Chandler
When James Chandler Allen was born on 18 January 1844, in Madison, Iowa, United States, his father, Orvel Morgan Allen, was 38 and his mother, Jane Wilson, was 33. He married Lucy Ann Prisbrey in 1863, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Aztec, San Juan, New Mexico, United States in 1910 and Blanco, San Juan, New Mexico, United States in 1930. In 1920, at the age of 76, his occupation is listed as retired in Bloomfield, San Juan, New Mexico, United States. He died on 3 April 1938, in Bloomfield, San Juan, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Aztec Cemetery, Aztec, San Juan, New Mexico, United States.
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- Chandler Allen in household of Orville Allen, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Chandler Allen - Government record: birth: about 1842; Iowa, United States
- James Chandler Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1845 · Oh My Father
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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LUCY ANN PRISBREY Story by Grace Prisbrey Mitchell
Brackets [ ] added for clarity and accuracy Lucy Ann Presbrey [sic] Lucy Ann was just: an infant when her father [Miner Grant Prisbrey] left his family in Wisconsin for his overland journey to the …
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