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ALLCOCK.ALLEN. the civil authorities of Boston, and created a sensation by roundly denouncing the slave-owners of the south and the upholders of slavery in the north. This oration was ill-timed and radical. The board of aldermen refused the speaker the customary vote of thanks. The Massachusetts house of representatives elected him chaplain in 1869, and in the autumn of that year his church united with Theodore Parker's congregation and organized a society, which held free services in Boston music hall, where he preached to crowded houses until he sailed for Europe, in 1870, for rest and recreation. While in Paris his health gave way, as the result of arduous overwork, and he was granted a year's leave of absence to recruit. He returned to this country, in May, 1872, and continued to preach in Music hall. In 1874 he accepted a call from the church of the Messiah in New York city, and ministered there until 1878, when he removed to Denver, Col., and from there in 1880 to Chicago, and in 1881 to Portland, Me., where the next year he abandoned the ministry and returned to Boston. Among his books are: " A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life" (1861); "Poetry of the Orient" (1856); "The Genius of Solitude" (1861); "The Friendships of Women" (1867); "The School of Life" (1881); "The Sources of Consolation in Human Life"; "Life of Edwin Forrest" (1877); "A Symbolic History of the Cross of Christ" (1881); and "Prayers offered in the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the session of 1868" (1869), printed by request.

ALLCOCK, Thomas, manufacturer, born in Birmingham, England, in 1814. He came to the United States in 1845, and invested his capital in a small drug store under the Astor House. He built up a good business, and in 1854 invented a porous plaster, the sale of which made an appreciable increase in his income. At the breaking out of the civil war he joined the Union army as assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Gates, and afterwards helped to organize a regiment of artillery, of which he was appointed major. He was actively engaged in nearly a score of battles, receiving a wound at the battle of Ream's Station, and for his brave conduct he received the brevet rank of brigadier-general. He remained in business in New York from the close of the war until his death, which occurred in New York city, Dec. 27, 1891.

ALLAN, Chilton, representative, was born in Albemarle county, Va., April 6, 1786; son of Archibald Allan. He settled in Winchester, Clark county, Ky., as a wheelwright, and educated himself for the legal profession. He represented his district in the state legislature for several terms between 1811 and 1831 and was state senator in 1823. He represented his congressional district in the 22d, 23d and 24th congresses, 1831-'37, where he was chairman of the committee on territories and a member of the committee on foreign affairs. In 1838 he was a member of the board of internal improvements in Kentucky and chairman of the board, and in 1843 was again a representative in the state legislature. He died in Winchester, Ky., Sept. 3, 1858.

ALLEN, Andrew, delegate, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in June, 1740; son of the Hon. William and Margaret (Hamilton) Allen. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1759, completed his education at the Temple in London, England, and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1765. He married Sarah, daughter of William Coxe. He was commissioner of Philadelphia County in 1768; a member of the Provincial assembly and council, 1769-75; attorney-general of Pennsylvania, 1774-'76; trustee of his alma mater 1775-78 and member of the Continental congress in 1776. He disapproved of independence, and ceased to attend in June, and was afterward attainted of treason by the assembly. He went to London and renewed allegiance and his property was confiscated. He died in London, March 7, 1825.

ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, author, was born at Otis, Mass., May 4, 1841. He was graduated at Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, in 1862, and at Andover theological seminary in 1865. He was a resident licentiate of Andover, Mass., 1865-'67. He took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, being ordained a deacon, July 5, 1865, and priest, June 24, 1866. He was rector of St. John's church, Lawrence, Mass., 1865-'67, and professor of ecclesiastical history at the Episcopal theological school, Cambridge, Mass., from 1867. He received the degree D.D. from Kenyon 1878; from Harvard, 1886, and from Yale, 1901. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts historical society. He published: "The Continuity of Christian Thought" (1884); his Bohlen lectures under the title "The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century" (1884); "Jonathan Edwards" (1889); Memoir of Phillips Brooks" (1891); "Religious Progress" (1894); "Christian Institutions" (1897) and "Life and Letters of Bishop Brooks (1900).

ALLEN, Benjamin, clergyman and author, was born in Hudson, N.Y., Sept. 3929 [sic], 1789. He was educated in the Presbyterian faith, but afterwards joined the Protestant Episcopal church, and began his work as a layman among the colored people of Charlestown, Va. He was admitted to the priesthood in 1818. In 1815 he published the Layman's Magazine, a weekly periodical; and in 1820 an abridged edition of Burnet's "History of the Reformation." In 1821 he assumed charge of the parish of St. Paul,