Brief Life History of William Purdy
When William Purdy Allen was born on 4 September 1891, in Cheatham, Tennessee, United States, his father, Andrew Franklin Allen, was 41 and his mother, Jane Ella Hale, was 36. He married Pearl L Boyte on 23 March 1934, in Cheatham, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Civil District 5, Cheatham, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Civil District 9, Cheatham, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 2 July 1950, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Cheatham, Tennessee, United States.
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- William P Allen, "United States 1950 Census"
- W P Allen, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William Purdy Allen, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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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