Brief Life History of John Percy Coleman
When John Percy Coleman Alden was born on 6 January 1882, in New York, United States, his father, Robert Percy Alden, was 33 and his mother, Mary Ida Warren, was 29. He lived in Bronxville, Eastchester, Westchester, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 24 December 1948, in New York, United States, at the age of 66.
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- John P Alden, "United States Census, 1940"
- alden, "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
- John Percy Coleman Alden, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either Aldwin, Aldin (representing Old English Ealdwine with loss of -w-) or Middle English Alwin with an intrusive -d- (see Alwin ), or Aldan, a variant of the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Healfdene (see Haldane ).
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because of its situation below a high mountain Alden, from an unattested word ‘high, standing out’.
History: John Alden (c. 1599–1687) was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He moved from Plymouth to Duxbury, MA, c. 1627. Many of his descendants were merchant seamen, among them James Alden (1810–77), who twice circumnavigated the globe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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