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Allen, Clarence Emir

educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1852, in Girard, Pa. He was trained in the common schools of Girard, fitted for college at Grand River institute, Austinburg, Ohio, and graduated from Western Reserve college with the class of 1877.

He taught one year at Grand River institute, and then was principal of the preparatory of Western Reserve college three years; went to Salt Lake City, Utah, in August, 1881, where he was an instructor in Salt Lake academy until 1886, when he resigned and entered upon the business of mining. He was elected to and served in the territorial legislatures of 1888, 1890, and 1894; was elected county clerk of Salt Lake county, Utah, in August, 1890, and served until Jan. 1, 1893; was admitted to the bar at Salt Lake City, in 1892; was the liberal candidate for delegate to congress in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.