Brief Life History of Christina
When Christina Allan was born on 26 February 1920, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Dr Alexander M Allan, was 27 and her mother, Isabelle Young, was 23. She married Dr Fred C Ford on 18 June 1945, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Turtle Creek, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1993. She died on 23 November 2011, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 91.
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- Christina Allen in household of Alexander Allen, "United States Census, 1940"
- Christina Allan, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Christina Ford in entry for Mr Press William A Allan, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Allen . This is the more common form of the name in Scotland and northern England. See also McAllen .
History: An early bearer of this surname in North America was William Allan, a British soldier who took his family to the newly founded city of Halifax, NS, Canada, in 1749. His son John (1746–1805) was a Revolutionary soldier who eventually (1783) founded the settlement of Allan's Island, Passamaquoddy Bay, ME.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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