Brief Life History of Leon Bernard
When Dr. Leon Bernard Allen was born on 23 November 1874, in Brookfield Center, Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States, his father, Frank Orlando Allen, was 29 and his mother, Ellen M. Steele, was 24. He married Grace Bell Mead on 5 October 1899, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Randolph, Orange, Vermont, United States in 1900 and Thetford, Orange, Vermont, United States for about 30 years. He died on 19 March 1957, in Post Mills, Thetford, Orange, Vermont, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Northfield, Washington, Vermont, United States.
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- Leon B Allen in household of Frank Allen, "United States Census, 1880"
- Leon Bernard Allen, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- L. B. Allen in entry for Dorothy Mildred Allen, "Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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World Events (8)
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.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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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