Brief Life History of Andrew Thomas
When Andrew Thomas Allen was born on 27 November 1872, in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Andrew Lee Allen Jr, was 40 and his mother, Minerva Butterfield Whittle, was 18. He married Cathrine Norvell Spencer in December 1896. He lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1910 and Franklin, Idaho, United States in 1920. He died on 7 March 1959, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- R Thomas Allen, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mr. Andrew L Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Andrew Thomas Allen, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
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.
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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A Brief history of Andrew Thomas Allen from the Whittle family records
Andrew Thomas Allen, born 27 November 1872 in Cove, Cache County, Utah, was the first son of Andrew Lee Jr and Minerva Whittle Allen. His childhood was spent in Cove, working on the farm and att …
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