Holden Allen

The Klamath Basin is blessed with the arrival of a baby boy!

The Staff of Sky Lakes Medical Center add our congratulations and very best wishes to Ashley and Dallas on the birth of their beautiful new son Holden Allen.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 14.4 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 8:15 a.m.

Date: Monday, October 26, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: John Wilson, M.D.

Origin of the name Holden . . .

Old English - Place name: "Hollow valley"

Monday, October 26, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 57

Local low: 31

The nation's weather extremes were 103 recorded at nationHighLocation and 8 recorded at Northway, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:33 a.m. and set at 6:08 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,972.18

and the Minimum Wage was $8.40

A market basket of consumer prices looked like this . . .

Loaf of Bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

First class stamp: $0.44

Average new $201,000.00

New Car: $21,750.00

Populations . .

Klamath Basin Population: 71,000

U.S. Population: 306,532,223

Holden shares his birthday with these other interesting people . . .

1946 - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Attorney, political activist and First Lady of the United States and wife of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1854 - Charles Post - American food processing entrepreneur and innovator who founded the giant Post cereal company and invented "Grape Nuts."

1786 - Henry Deringer - American inventor a firearms manufacturer known for the tiny deringer pistol fancied by professional gamblers in the Old West.

There have been some other notable events on this day in history . . .

1881 - Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday stepped into Western folklore as they routed the Clanton gang at the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."

1858 - Inventor Hamilton Erastus Smith received a patent for a hand-cranked, rotary motion washing machine, a huge improvement over the tub and washboard method used previously.

1825 - The economic influence of mid-America was greatly enhanced with the opening of the 350 mile long Erie Canal that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.

1774 - The legendary citizen fighting force known as "The Minute Men" was organized in America. Six months later they would see the first action of the American War of Independence at Concord.