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ALLEN.ALLEN. phia. He established a printing office in 1827. He is the author of: "Christ and Him Crucified"; "Living Manners" (1822); "The Parent's Counsellor"; "History of the Church of Christ" (1823-'24); "Sketch of the Life of Dr. Pilmore" (1825). He died at sea, Jan. 13, 1829. ALLEN, Calvin Francis, civil engineer and educator, was born at Roxbury, Mass., July 10, 1851. He was graduated from the Roxbury Latin school in the class of 1868, and from the Massachusetts institute of technology in civil engineering in the class of 1872. Immediately after his graduation he entered upon the work of civil engineering, devoting especial attention to hydraulic and sanitary engineering. In 1878 he was admitted as member of the American society of civil engineers. Later, in the west, mainly in connection with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé railroad, his work was more directly railroad engineering. In 1885 he was admitted to practice before the courts of New Mexico, serving for more than a year as attorney of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé railroad at Socorro. In 1887 he became assistant professor of railroad engineering at the Massachusetts institute of technology, and in 1893 was made associate professor, and served as secretary of the alumni association. He published, mainly for the use of his own students, two books, "Railroad Curves and Earthwork," and "Tables for the Computation of Earth-work." ALLEN, Charles, representative, was born in Worcester, Mass., Aug. 9, 1797. He was admitted to the bar in 1821, was a representative in the state legislature in 1829, 1834, 1836 and 1840, and was a state senator, 1835, 1838 and 1839. He was a commissioner to negotiate the Webster treaty in 1842 and a judge of the court of common pleas, 1842-'44. He represented his district in the 31st and 32d congresses, 1849-'53, as a Freesoil Whig, was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1853, was chief justice of the superior court of Suffolk county, 1858-'67, and a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1836 and that of LL.D. from Harvard in 1863. He died in Worcester, Mass., Aug. 6, 1869. ALLEN, Charles, jurist, was born in Greenfield, Mass., April 17, 1827; son of Sylvester and Harriet (Ripley) Allen. He was graduated at Harvard in 1847, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He practised in Greenfield, and Boston, Mass., 1850-'82; was reporter of decisions of the supreme court, 1861-'67; attorney-general of the state, 1867-'72; chairman of commissioners to revise the general statutes of the state, 1880-'81, and judge of the supreme court, 1882-'98. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1892. He published, "Allen's Reports" (14 vols., 1861-67); "Telegraph Cases," "Notes on the Bacon-Shakespeare Question" (1900). ALLEN, Charles Dexter, editor, was born at Windsor Locks, Conn., March 8, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of Hartford, and subsequently engaged in banking. He became editor of: "In Lantern Land" in December, 1898. He is the author of: "American Book-plates" (1894); "A Classified List of Early American Book-Plates" (1894); and "Ex Libris: Essays of a Collector" (1896). ALLEN, Charles Frederic, clergyman and educator, was born in Norridgewock, Maine, Jan. 28, 1816; son of William and Hannah (Titcomb) Allen; grandson of William, and a descendant in the ninth generation of Samuel Allen, who in 1630 immigrated to Massachusetts, coming from Durham county, England. Charles Frederick was graduated at Bowdoin in 1839; was instructor at Kent's Hill seminary, 1839-'43; a minister in the Maine Methodist Episcopal conference, 1843-'72, during which time he served as secretary of the conference for seven years, and as delegate to the General conference of 1864, 1868 and 1880. He was the first president of the Maine state college of agricultural and mechanic arts, 1872-'79, and again in the Methodist ministry, 1879-'99, serving three years as presiding elder. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin and from Wesleyan university in 1872. He was a member of the committee to revise the Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal church. His son, Charles Morse Allen (Wesleyan, 1882), was a teacher of natural sciences at Wyoming seminary, Pa., 1882-'89, and became a professor of chemistry in Pratt institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1889; and his son, William Albert, Maine state college, 1874, was a civil engineer Maine Central railroad, 1874-'79, and chief engineer, M.C.R.R., 1878-'96, and was killed by accident, March 21, 1896, while inspecting a bridge at Lewiston, Maine. Charles F. Allen died at Portland, Maine, Feb. 9, 1899. ALLEN, Charles Herbert, naval official, was born in Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848; son of Otis and Louisa (Bixby) Allen. He was graduated at Amherst A.B., 1869; A.M., 1872, and became a lumber manufacturer, in partnership with his father. He was a state representative, 1882-'83, a state senator, 1884; a member of Governor Robinson's staff, with rank of colonel; a representative in the 49th and 50th congresses, 1885-'89; the unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1891; state prison commissioner, 1897-'98; and assistant secretary of the navy, under Secretary Long, 1898-1901, succeeding Theodore Roosevelt, May 9, 1898. He was appointed governor of Porto Rico in 1900, and held the office from that year.