Brief Life History of Wilford Ally
When Wilford Ally Boren was born on 24 October 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Alley Dennis Boren, was 30 and his mother, Adeline Magdeline Mathis, was 26. He married Sarah A Schyff on 1 December 1872, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1900 and San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 December 1926, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Wilifred A Boren in household of Ally D Boren, "United States Census, 1870"
- Milford Boren, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Wilford A Boren, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Name Meaning
Swedish (also Borén): ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + the adjectival suffix -én/-en, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Boreen and Borin .
Polish (Boreń): from a pet form of the personal names like Borzysław (see Bora 1).
Probably also an Americanized form of German Born .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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