When Mary Josephine Allen was born on 23 December 1849, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Orvel Morgan Allen, was 44 and her mother, Susanna Ward, was 31. She married Dr. Joseph Smith Wing on 17 December 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860 and Springville, Utah, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 30 August 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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