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Allen, William Henry

educator, college president, was born in March, 1808, in Readfield, Maine. In 1833 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and then became a teacher of Greek and Latin in the Cazenovia seminary, N. Y.

In 1836 he took charge of the high school in Augusta, Maine; then filled a position in Carlisle, Pa., where for ten years he was professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Dickinson college. In 1850 he became president of the Girard college of Philadelphia, Pa.

For thirteen years he filled that position and then resigned; but at the end of four years he was persuaded to again accept the presidency of that institution.