Allen, Edward P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1839, in Sharon, Mich. He graduated from the State Normal school in March, 1864; taught the Union school in Vassar, Mich., for the three months following, when he enlisted and helped to raise a company for the twenty-ninth Michigan infantry.
He was commissioned first lieutenant, and was mustered out as captain. He entered the law school at Ann Arbor, graduating in March, 1867; practices in Ypsilanti.
He was elected alderman of Ypsilanti in 1872 and 1874, and mayor in 1880; and was prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw county in 1872. He was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1876; was again elected in 1878, at which time he was elected speaker pro tempore. He was appointed assistant assessor of internal revenue in 1869; was United States Indian agent for Michigan in August, 1882, which office he held until December, 1885.
He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.