Allen, Samuel C
clergyman, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1772, in Franklin county, Mass.
He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1794; was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature from 1806 to 1810; a state senator from 1812 to 1815, and in 1831; a member of the executive council in 1829 and 1830; and a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1829. He was at one time a congregational preacher, but subsequently turned his attention to law and literature. He died Feb. 8, 1842, in Northfield, Mass.