Brief Life History of Simeon Franklin
When Simeon Franklin Allen was born on 3 April 1839, in Litchfield, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, his father, Ira Allen, was 24 and his mother, Calista Bass, was 27. He married Boletta Maria Johnson on 5 December 1863, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860 and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1891. He died on 16 May 1901, in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Hyrum City Cemetery, Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Samuel Allen, "United States Census, 1870"
- headstone with birth and death dates.
- Simeon F Allen, "BillionGraves Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847 · Moving the State Capital
The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States
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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Life Sketch of Simeon Franklin Allen - Compiled by his son, Alvin Allen, 1951
Simeon Franklin Allen, generally called Frank, was born 3 April 1839 at Litchfield, Michigan, then a small farming district. His father, Ira Allen, was born 27 April 1814 at Thompson (now Putnam) Wind …
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