Brief Life History of Horace Morse
When Horace Morse Allen was born on 26 May 1822, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Allen, was 60 and his mother, Lucy Chapin, was 53. He married Nancy Walker on 26 December 1847, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1855 and Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 24 December 1891, in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Howard Cemetery, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Horace Allen, "United States Census, 1870"
- Horace M. Allen, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Horace in entry for Edmond P Allen, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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