Men of Progress, 1898
Menf o Progress Biographical S ketches and Portraits OF Leaders i n Business and Professional Life INND A OF THE COMPILED U NDER THE SUPERVISION OF RICHARD H ERNDON EDITEDY B RICHARD B URTON BOSTON NEW E NGLAND MAGAZINE 1898 M5"3 Copvright, 1 897 uv RICHARD H ERNDON 7TKTrcq H lSTORICAC-1 • C. ALFRED M UDOE * SON, PRINTERS, BOSTON. MENF O PROGRESS. ALLEN, I saac Almarin, Jr., Architect, Hartford, a d escendant of Captain Ephraim Pease, who was born in Enfield street, Enfield, Connecticut, entertained General Washington at his house in May 22, 1859, son of Isaac Almarin and Harriet Enfield. His father's mother Mary (Pease) Allen Jane (Carrier) Allen. He is an only son; of his was also a descendant of Captain Ephraim Pease. four sisters, but one is now living — Elizabeth A letter from General Washington referring to the Ingraham (Allen) Burns, wife of Louis Burns of hospitality of Captain Pease, is still preserved by Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The other three sisters died while young. His father is a well-to-do farmer of Enfield, and his grandfather, Chauncey Allen, was an extensive farmer and dealer in leaf tobacco, who died at the age of eighty-nine, leaving a large property. Isaac Allen, brother of Chaun cey, moved from Enfield to Clarkson, Monroe county, New York, and became an extensive farmer there. At the age of eighteen he was a Colonel in the War of 1812. The genealogy of the family is traced back many generations in the Allen gene alogy, which has been published. On his mother's side he is descended from John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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