James W Allen

Male 1852 - 1934  (81 years)


 

Allen, James W

History

Son of John and Christina Allen, his parents were natives of Caithnesshire, Scotland and emigrated to America in 1840 with her relatives, coming over in the
sailing vessel Osprey to Halifax, later moved to Baltimore and in 1843 they were married and settled on a farm in Morgan county, Indiana, where James was born and reared. His father died when James was young, and his boyhood was one of hard work to help his mother make a living for herself and her three children. He got most of his education outside of the county school and later learned the carpenter trade which he followed in Indiana and later in Kansas and southwest Missouri until 1882 when he went into the lumber business at Springfield, Mo. In 1884 he bought a lumber yard at Sarcoxie, Mo., which he owned and operated until May, 1901 when he sold out and moved to a farm he bought at the east end of Broadway in Newton, which he later sold and purchased the late residence of Judge R. W. P. Muse on East Fifth street where he spent the last twenty-eight years of his life.

While not a person to make new acquaintances readily after he one became a friend he was a friend for ever after. He loved to read and was well posted. In politics he was a Republican.

On December 24, 1884 he married Elizabeth Keller, five children were born. Charles Fredrick, Ethel Christina, Maude Magdalene, James Arthur and Theodore Alfred

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