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a colonel in the army on. In 1819-27 he was

under General Jacksa representative from

Tennessee to the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. He died Aug. 19, 1844, in Carthage, Tenn. Allen, Eohert, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 20, 1794, in Woodstock, Va. For a time he held the oflSce of

prosecutor for the commonweath; and served five years in the state senate of Virginia. In 1827-33 he was a, representative from Virginia to the twenty-first and twenty-second congresses. He died about 1850 in Mount Jackson, Va. Allen, Robert, soldier, was born in 1815 in Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1836; and was a second lieutenant in the Seminole war. In the Mexican war he received the brevet rank of major. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863; was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army in 1864; and received the brevet rank of major-general in 1865. After the civil war he served again as chief quartermaster in the Pacific; and was retired in 1878. He died Aug. 6, 1886, in Geneva, Switzerland. Allen, Robert McDowell, lawyer, govern-

ment

official,

inburg, Mo.

was born

He

Oct. 29, 1878, in Ed"was educated at the Henryacademy Jessee of Versailles, Ky.; attended the Lexington city high school and in

1900 graduated with the degree of A.B. from the Kentucky state university. Since 1901 he has been engaged in the practice of law. In 1900 he was appointed to a position in the pure food inspection work of the

Kentucky

agricultur-

experiment station; was later made the head of the division of state food Inspection of the station; and an advisory member of the Kentucky state board of health. In 190308 he was secretary and a member of the executive committee of the association of the state and the national food and dairy department. In 1904 he was secretary of the international pure food congress held in al

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St. Louis, Mo. He is now special counsel in certain United States government pure food prosecutions ; and head of the division of food and drug inspection at the Kentucky agricultural experiment station at Lexington. Allen, Samuel, patentee, of New Hampshire, colonel governor, was born in 1636 in

England.

He was a London merchant; and

in 1691 purchased from the heirs of John Mason their grant of land from the English

crown. The purchase included Portsmouth and Dover, and extended sixty miles from the sea coast. In 1699-1702 he was colonial governor of New Hampshire. He died May 5, 1705, in Newcastle, N.H.

Allen, Samuel Clesson, clergyman, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1772, in Franklin county, Mass. He was a representative in the (Massachusetts state legislature in 1806-10; a state senator 181215 and in 1831; and was a member of the executive council in 1829-30. In 1817-29 he was a representative from Massachusetts in the fifteenth to the twentieth congresses. He died Feb. 8, 1842, in Northfield, Mass. Allen, Samuel Louis, pioneer founder, was born April 12, 1808, in Sullivan, N.Y. In 1838 he moved to Nacogdoches, Texas; then to Houston, which town his brothers founded. He there started the first sawmill in that portion of Texas; and was one of the owners and promoters of the first cotton press He died Oct. 12, 1895, in Housin Texas. ton, Texas. Allen, Samuel Ward King, soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born Jan. 2, 1842, in North Kingstown. He received his education at the East Greenwich academy at the New York conference seminary, and at the Boston university. He served as a soldier in the civil war; attained prominence as an able lawyer; served six terms in the Rhode Island state legislature; and was speaker of the house of representatives three successive

terms. Allen, Silas Frederick, soldier, lawyer, was»

was born March 2, 1832, in Romulus, N.Y. In 1858 he commenced the practice of the law in La Porte, Ind. He entered the civil war in 1861 as captain of company C, twentyninth regiment Indiana volunteers; and was wounded at Shiloh on April 7, 1862. Being disabled from active service in the field, he became a member of a military court of claims at Nashville, Tenn., of which he was president when he resigned in 1864. In 1870 he continued his profession in Kansas City, Mo. He died Sept. 11, 1898, in Kansas City, Mo. Allen, Solomon, soldier, missionary, was born Feb. 23, 1751, in Northampton, Mass. He was a brother of Moses and ThomasAllen, who were chaplains in the revolutionary army, while he fought as a soldier and rose in the rank of major. As lieutenant he commanded the guard that took Major Andre to West Point. After the war he was engaged in suppressing Shay's rebellion. At the age of forty he became a religious convert; and at fifty began the life of a missionary preacher. A Sketch of the Last Hours of Solomon Allen was written by J. N. Danforth. He died Jan. 28, 1821, in; New York. Allen, Stephen, business man, founder, was born in July, 1767, in New York City. While commissioner for visiting prisons, he proposed the erection of the state prison at Sing Sing; and was one of the principal originators of the project for supplying NewYork City with water from the Croton river. He perished in the steamer Henry Clay, which was burned in July, 1852.