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ALLEN.ALLEN. with the brevet rank of major, and went to the University of Pennsylvania as professor of comparative anatomy and medical zoölogy, and afterwards of physiology. He also acted as professor of anatomy and surgery in the Philadelphia Dental college, and as surgeon and secretary to the Philadelphia hospital. He contributed to medical journals, writing chiefly on osteomyelitis, human anatomy, and morbid anatomy. His publications are: "Outlines of Comparative Anatomy and Medical Zoölogy" (1868); "Studies in the Facial Region" (1869); "An Analysis of the Life-form in Art" (1875); "Monograph on the Bats of North America" (1864); "Localization of Diseased Action in the Œsophagus" (1877); "The Temporal and Masseter Muscles of Mammals" (1880); "System of Human Anatomy" (1882); "Motions of the Soft Palate" (1884); "A Clinical Study of the Skull" (1890); "Embryos of Bats" (1895). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14, 1897. ALLEN, Heman, diplomat, was born at Cornwall, Ct., Oct. 15, 1740, second son of Joseph and Mary (Baker) Allen. His father died in 1755, and he, after going with his brothers to the New Hampshire grants, returned and became a merchant at Salisbury, Ct., where he was living when the war of the revolution broke out. He was largely interested in Vermont and owned considerable property there. He was a delegate from Rutland, Vt., to the convention of January, 1777, that declared for independence, and again from Colchester, Vt., to the Windsor convention that framed the state constitution. He was also agent from Dorset convention of January, 1776, to present the cause of the people of Vermont to Congress, petitioning to be allowed to serve in the common cause, under officers to be named by Congress. This was a very successful effort, and he reported on the mission, July 22, 1776. In all the conventions looking to the affairs of Vermont, save two, his name appears as a delegate, and in the two he served as delegate at large or counsellor. He represented Middlebury in the state legislature one term. He was captain of a company in the regiment of Green Mountain Boys in their expedition to Canada. At the battle of Bennington he was present as one of the committee of safety, and there contracted a cold which led to decline and death in May, 1778. ALLEN, Heman, lawyer, was born in Poultney, Vt., Feb. 23, 1779, son of Heber Allen, and nephew of Ethan Allen. In 1795 he was graduated from Dartmouth college, and after studying law he was appointed, in 1808, sheriff of Chittenden county, Vt., serving two years. From 1811 to 1814 he was chief justice of the county court, and from 1812 to 1817 a member of the lower house of the state legislature. While in the latter body he received the appointment of quartermaster of militia, with the title of brigadier-general. In 1817 he was elected a representative in Congress, but resigned the following year to accept from President Monroe the position of United States marshal for the district of Vermont. In 1823 President Monroe appointed him United States minister to Chili, where he remained until 1828. He married Elizabeth Hart, one of "the seven graces of Stratford." He resigned in 1828, and from 1830 to 1836 was president of the United States branch bank at Burlington; and at the expiration of its charter he removed to Highgate, Vt., where he died April 9, 1852. ALLEN, Henry Watkins, governor, was born in Prince Edward county, Va., April 29, 1820. He was educated at the Collegiate institute, Marionville, Mo., studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practised at Grand Gulf, Miss. He married in 1842, Salome Crane of Rodney, Miss., and in that year raised and commanded a company under Gen. Houston in the war between Texas and Mexico. He was a representative in the Mississippi legislature in 1846; engaged in sugar-planting at West Baton Rouge, La., and was elected to the Louisiana legislature in 1853. He studied law at Harvard in 1854; sailed for Italy in 1859, intending to enlist with Garibaldi, but found the war was over, and made a tour of Europe. He served a second term in the Louisiana legislature, enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861, and became colonel of the 4th Louisiana regiment and military governor of Jackson, Miss. He distinguished himself at Shiloh, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg; was promoted brigadier-general in 1864, and was elected governor of Louisiana. He returned to the city of Mexico in 1866, and established the "Mexican Times." He died in the city of Mexico, April 22, 1867. ALLEN, Horace Newton, diplomat, was born at Delaware, Ohio, April 23, 1858. He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, in 1881; studied in the Ohio medical college, and received the degree M.D. from the Cincinnati medical college in 1884. He was appointed medical missionary to China under the auspices of the Presbyterian church in 1883; was transferred to Korea in 1884; saved the life of a prince in a revolution; was appointed medical officer to the court, and as a recognition of his services during the rebellion in 1885, was provided with a hospital by the king. He was secretary and interpreter to the Korean embassy to the United States, at Washington, in 1887, returning to Korea as U. S. secretary of the legation in 1890. He was Korean commissioner to the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, in 1893, and was appointed U.S. minister to Korea in 1897.