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EDWARD PAYSON ALLEN, of Ypsilanti, was born in Sharon, Washtenaw county, Michigan, October 28, 1839; worked
on a farm until twenty years old, attending school and teaching during the winter; graduated from the State Normal
School in March, 1864; taught the Union School in Vassar, Michigan, for three months following, when he enlisted
and helped to raise a company for the Twenty Ninth Michigan Infantry; was commissioned first lieutenant in that
regiment in the following September, and went with it southwest, where the regiment was engaged in active campaigning
until the 1st of April; in September, 1865, was mustered out of the service with his regiment as captain; entered
the law school at Ann Arbor, graduating in March, 1867; formed a partnership with Hon. S. M. Cutcheon; upon the
removal of Mr. Cutcheon to Detroit, in 1875, he continued the practice alone at Ypsilanti; was elected alderman
of Ypsilanti in 1872 and 1S74 and mayor in 1880; was prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw county in 1872; was elected
to the lower house of the Legislature in 1876, serving as chairman of the Committee on Education; was again elected
in 1878. at which time he was elected Speaker pro fern.; was appointed Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue in
1869; was United States Indian Agent for Michigan in August, 1882, which office he held until December, 1885; ran
for Congress in 1884, and was defeated by Colonel Eldredge, Democrat, and was elected to the Fiftieth Congress
as a Republican, and reelected to the Fifty First Congress, receiving 19,660 votes to 18,096 votes for Willard
Stearns, Democrat, 2,010 votes for C. M. Fellows, Prohibitionist, and 143 votes for John H. Hobart, Union Labor.
From:
History of Monroe County, Michigan
Talcott E. Wing, Editor
Munsell & Company, Publishers
New York 1890.
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