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WILLIAM ALLEN, merchant, Plain City, was born in Vermont, April 15, 1811. He is a son of Calvin and Eunice (Delano)
Allen, natives of Vermont, the former of Irish and the latter of French descent, who emigrated to this county in
1818. His father was a brick mason. Our subject was reared on the farm and worked with his father until twenty
years of age. He served a two years' apprenticeship to the brick mason's trade, and followed his trade for nearly
a quarter of a century. In 1863, he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Plain City, where he still continues. He
was married, in 1839, to Harriet N. Ewing, a daughter of Joshua Ewing, who settled here in 1822. By this union
eight children were born, five surviving, viz., A. W., Caroline, Lyman, Mary and Wilbur G. A. W. Allen is the junior
member of the firm of Hager & Allen, dealers in groceries, boots, shoes and produce, and extensive shippers
of eggs. This firm shipped in 1881, 1,200 barrels of eggs, with seventy five dozen eggs in each barrel, making
1,080,000 eggs. A. W. Allen enlisted in 1861 in Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three
months; and, at the expiration of his term, reenlisted in Company I, Forty seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col.
James A. Garfield, and was honorably discharged at the end of his term of service. He was wounded at the battle
of Port Gibson, and did not rejoin, his regiment until they were at the siege of Vicksburg, in which they participated.
Caroline is the wife of Rev. C. S. Irwin. Lyman B. is a train dispatcher and telegraph operator in California.
Mary is the wife of R. C. Hager, of Hager & Allen. Wilbur G. is in the store with his father. Mrs. Allen died
in 1868. She and her husband were members of the Presbyterian Church, and he has been an Elder and Deacon in the
church at Plain City. He is a Republican in politics, and has been Township Trustee and Justice of the Peace. He
is a man of reliable business principles and strict morality.
From:
History of Madison County, Ohio
Published by: W. H. Beers and Company
Chicago, Illinois
1883
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