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B. R. ALLEN, HARTFORD: Insurance Agent, Stock and Bond Broker.
Bennet Rowland Allen was born in Enfield, May 17, 1838, and was educated at E. Hall's classical school in Ellington,
Wm. C. Goldthwait's in Longmeadow, Mass., and at the Connecticut State Normal School, in New Britain. He became
a teacher in the Ellington school, which was one of the leading classical schools in Hartford county in its day.
Subsequently he engaged in manufacturing business at Windsor Locks, remaining there from 1861 until 1868. A portion
of the time he was the manager of the Medlicott mill, which was occupied through the war in making knit goods for
the soldiers' use. Afterwards he became a member of the firm of C. H. Dexter & Sons, Mr. Dexter, the founder
of the company, being Mr. Allen's father in law, and engaged in them manufacture of manilla papers. In 1868 he
removed to Hartford and became the local manager of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, the Royal Insurance Company
of England, and of the Pennsylvania Insurance Company of Philadelphia. In addition to the management of the local
transactions of these companies, Mr. Allen is engaged in the business of a stock and bond broker. He is held in
the highest esteem in business centres in this city, and is deserving in every way of the universal confidence
felt in his ability. He is prominently associated with Masonic interests, being a knight templar; is a member,
also, of the Connecticut Society Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Allen is a republican, politically, but has
paid no attention to public office, having resolutely refrained through life from seeking public position. During
the war he voluntarily sent a substitute into the service, and was thoroughly interested in the success of the
Union cause. The business in which he was engaged at the time as manager of the Medlicott company made it of great
importance that his services should be retained here. Mr. Allen is an active and influential member of the Asylum
Hill Congregational church. His family consists of a wife and son. The former was Miss Annie Pierson Dexter of
Windsor Locks prior to her marriage. The son occupies a responsible position in the Society for Savings on Pratt
street.
From:
Illustrated Popular Biography
Of Connecticut
Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding
Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.
Hartford, Conn. 1891
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