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 14 ALLEN. ALLEN. dresses, as well as being appointed to stump during state and national cam- paigns. In behalf of the Plymouth Woolen Company he argued in favor of the con- stitutionality of the " act permitting mu- nicipal officers to authorize manufacturers to ring bells and use whistles and gongs for the benefit of their workmen." As counsel for the Lancaster Bank, he succeeded in recovering the securities stolen from its vaults. He organized the Lynn Electric Lighting Company under the Thomson-Houston patents, and is still one of its directors. ALLEN, Frederick Slocum, son of Holden and Mary Devoll (Slocum) Allen, was born in Westport, Bristol county, December 25, 1837. His early educational advantages were limited to the district schools of Fairhaven. Before he was quite seventeen years of age, he shipped on a whaling voyage to the Arctic Ocean, and sailed from New Bedford, November 3, 1856, in the ship "Saratoga" — Frederick Slocum, master. He was connected with the whaling busi- ness some three years and a half. This business he left in i860. As his father held a commission as pilot for the ports of Buzzard's Bay, he then assisted him in that business as boat-keeper for about ten years, as also previous to his whaling voyage, some five years. He then spent considerable time and money in improv- ing windlasses. Several models were on exhibition at the National Museum at Washington. For several years he has been quite actively engaged in town affairs, and for fourteen years he has held a commission as justice of the peace. He has given special attention to the saving of life from shipwreck, and in 1887, at the Interna- tional Maritime Exposition at Havre, France, he was awarded a silver medal for a reversible life-boat. Mr. Allen was married in Martha's Vineyard, November, i860, to Florencia C. Austin. They have one son: Frederick Allen. His residence is Cuttyhunk Island, Dukes County. ALLEN, HORACE G., son of Stephen M. Allen, was born at Jamaica Plain (Boston), July 27, 1855. His preparatory studies were pursued in the common schools. He was gradu- ated LL.B. from the Harvard law school in 1876; then became associated with Nathan Morse, Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1877. Later, he became law partner with Mr. Morse, under the firm name of Morse & Allen, with whom he still remains in practice of the law. Mr. Allen was married in Brunswick, Me, April 28, 1881. to Grace D., daughter of Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain. Mr. Allen is a member of the Boston Art Club, Boston Athletic Association, and Cur- tis Club. In ;888 and '89 he was elected HORACE G ALLEN a member of the Boston common coun- cil, and in the latter year, after a protracted contest, was chosen president of that body, January 1 ith. In this responsible position he has displayed marked ability, and has already acquired a reputation for tact and fairness greatly to his credit. His resi- dence is in Roxbury. ALLEN, JOSEPH HENRY, was born August 2r, 1820, in Northborough, Wor- cester county, where his father (Joseph, born in Medfield, 1790, on the old home- stead at Castle Hill, occupied since 1649 and still by the Allen family) was settled as minister of the town in 1S16, and remain- ed pastor of the First Parish till his death in 1873. His mother (Lucy Clark, born in Hingham, 1791, diedi866) was daughter of Prof. Henry Ware of Harvard University (1805-1845). He is seventh in descent, by the maternal line, of a series of Massa- chusetts Congregational ministers, includ-