Allen, De Witt Clinton – Allen, Henry Watkins
Allen, De Witt Clinton
lawyer, was born Nov. 11, 1835, in Clay county, Mo. He was educated at Wyman's English and Classical high school of St. Louis, Mo.; and graduated from the William Jewell college of Liberty, Mo.
He has held positions as attorney of the fifth judicial circuit of Missouri; and was a member of the Missouri constitutional convention in 1875. He is a trustee of the William Jewell college; and was a presidential elector in 1896.
Allen, Don Alonzo
soldier, clergyman, evangelist, was born Oct. 23, 1844, in Ellisburgh, N. Y. At eleven years of age he became a cabin boy on a propeller; and was a sailor on the lakes in summer, and attended school in winter. At the age of sixteen years he enlisted in the twenty-fourth regiment New York volunteer infantry, and served gallantly throughout the war.
He then served as a sailor until 1877; and since 1883 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He has attained prominence as an evangelist of note in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and several other western states. He is also a prominent prohibitionist, and was tendered the nomination for congress, but has steadfastly declined all political honors. He now fills a pastorate in Randolph, Iowa.
Allen, Ebenezer
soldier, was born Oct. 17, 1743, in Northampton, Mass. In 1771 he emigrated to Poultney, Vt., and became a lieutenant in Col. Warner's regiment of Green Mountain boys. He removed to Tinmouth in 1775, and was a delegate from that town to the several conventions in the New Hampshire grants in 1776, and to those that declared the state independent and formed the state constitution during the following year.
He was appointed a captain in Col. Herrick's battalion of rangers in July, 1777, and distinguished himself at the battle of Bennington. In September of the same year he captured Mt. Defiance by assault, and on the retreat of the enemy from Fort Ticonderoga made fifty of them prisoners. Subsequently he was made major in the rangers, and showed himself a brave and successful partisan leader.
He died March 26, 1806, in Burlington, Vt.
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.
Allen, Edwin R
soldier, state senator, lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island, was born Nov. 26, 1840, in Windham, Conn. He was educated in the schools of his native town and at Eagleswood, N. J.
He enlisted in company A, seventh regiment Rhode Island volunteers, in August, 1862; was corporal, sergeant-major, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and was in command of said company when it was mustered out of service in June, 1865. He served as state senator in 1889-90 and in 1891-92, and became lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island in 1894.
Allen, Elisha H
lawyer, congressman, diplomatist, was born Jan. 28, 1804, in New Salem, Mass. He was a lawyer; served in the legislature of Maine from 1836 to 1841, and in 1846; and in 1838 as speaker. He was elected a representative in congress from Maine from 1841 to 1843.
In 1847 he removed to Boston; was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1849; after which he was appointed consul to Honolulu. He afterward became connected with the government of the Sandwich islands; and in 1856 visited the United States as envoy. In 1857 he was chief justice and chancellor of the Sandwich islands, serving until 1864; and was the Hawaiian minister at Washington for a number of years. He died suddenly while attending the president's reception, Jan. 1, 1883, in Washington, D. C.
Allen, Elizabeth Akers
poet, was born Oct. 9, 1832, in Strong, Maine.
In 1855 she became assistant editor of the Portland Transcript; and wrote the celebrated poem entitled Rock Me to Sleep, Mother. She is the author of a volume of poetry, entitled Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine; and a second volume of verse entitled Poems by Florence Percy; and is also the author of The Silver Bridge and other works. She is a member of the Sorosis, of New York city, and is still engaged in literary work.
Allen, Esther Lavilla
author, poet, was born May 28, 1834, in Ithaca, N. Y. Since 1870 she has contributed stories, sketches and poems to various newspapers and magazines, which have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.
Allen, Esther Saville
educator, author, was born Dec. 11, 1837, in Honeoye, N. Y. For many years she was engaged in educational work in the states of New York and Illinois; and is now a resident of Arkansas. She is the author of numerous productions in prose and verse, which have had extensive publication in the leading periodicals of the west.
Allen, Ethan
an officer of the revolutionary war, was born Jan. 10, 1737, in Litchfield, Conn. He was leader of the famous Green Mountain boys, of Vermont, and hero of the capture of forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point, May 10, 1775. He attacked the English at Montreal, was taken prisoner, and sent to England in irons. He died Feb. 13, 1789, near Burlington, Vt.
Allen, Fred Hovey
clergyman, author, was born in 1845 in New Hampshire. He is a clergyman, author of the text in a number of popular art works, such as Great Cathedrals of the World; Modern German Masters; The Bowdoin Collection; The Doré Album: The Gerome Album; Discovery and Conquest of Peru; and Discovery and Conquest of Mexico.
Allen, Frederick De Forest
educator, author, was born in 1844 in Ohio.
He has been a professor of classical philology at Harvard university since 1880; and the author of Remnants of Early Latin; and Greek Versification in Inscriptions.
Allen, Harrison
surgeon, author, was born April 17, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a surgeon of Philadelphia, professor in the university of Pennsylvania from 1865; and the author of Outlines of Comparative Anatomy; and System of Human Anatomy.
Allen, Heman
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1776. He was a resident, if not a native, of Milton, Vt., and adopted the profession of the law, in which he became distinguished. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1833 to 1839. He died Dec. 11, 1844, in Burlington, Vt.
Allen, Heman
lawyer, congressman, diplomat, was born Feb. 23, 1779, in Poultney, Vt. He was a resident of Colchester, Vt.; graduated at Dartmouth college in 1795, and adopted the profession of the law; and was sheriff of Chittenden county in 1808 and 1809. From 1811 to 1814 he was chief justice of the Chittenden county court; from 1812 to 1817 was an active member of the state legislature; was appointed quartermaster of militia, with the title of brigadier; and was a trustee of the university of Vermont. He was first elected a representative in congress from Vermont in 1817, but resigned in 1818 to accept the appointment of United States marshal for the district of Vermont. In 1823 he received the appointment of minister to Chili, which post he resigned in 1828. In 1830 he was appointed president of the United States branch bank, of Burlington. He died April 9, 1852, in Highgate, Vt.
Allen, Heman W
soldier, merchant, legislator, was born in 1844, in Westford, Vt. He was a private in company A, thirteenth regiment Vermont volunteers; was promoted to first lieutenant company I, second Vermont militia, in 1864-67; and inspector of rifle practice on staff of Governor Woodbury. He is a successful drygoods merchant of Vermont; a director of the Merchants National bank, and of the Vermont Electric company.
Allen, Henry
founder of a sect, was born June 14, 1748, in Newport, R. I. In 1774 and succeeding years he made many converts in Nova Scotia to his peculiar mystical religious ideas. He believed that human souls are emanations from a single great spirit, and that the Bible is to be interpreted not literally, but in a spiritual sense. He published a book of hymns and several treatises and sermons. The Allenites became numerous under his eloquent preaching, but declined after his death. He died Feb. 2, 1784, in Northampton, N. H.
Allen, Henry Watkins
the fifteenth governor of Louisiana, was born April 29, 1820, in Prince Edward county, Va. He taught school, practiced law, and became a gallant soldier. In 1842 with his brother he enlisted in the war of.
Texas against Mexico; and in 1846 was elected to the state legislature of Mississippi. He ran away from school, had a roving disposition, and finally settled in West Baton Rouge; and in 1853 was elected to the Louisiana house of representatives. In 1861 he joined the confederate army, was elected lieutenantcolonel, and became military governor of Jackson, Miss. He was desperately wounded at Shiloh and at Baton Rouge, and was appointed brigadier-general. In 1864 he was inaugurated governor of Louisiana, and died April 22, 1866, in the city of Mexico.