Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Allen was born on 18 June 1891, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, John Kirby Allen, was 27 and his mother, Lydia Jane Taylor, was 23. He married Esther Laverne Forbes on 12 January 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1935 and Pleasant Grove Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 23 November 1968, in Austin, Lander, Nevada, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Chico, Butte, California, United States.
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- Thomas Allen in household of John Kirby Allen, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Tom Allen, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Thomas Allen, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1897
Historical Boundaries: 1897: Utah, Utah, United States
1912 · The Girl Scouts
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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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