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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  REV. W. T. ALLEN, Rector in charge of the Episcopal Church, was born in
Shenandoah Valley, Clarke County, Va., on December 15, 1855. He remained there,
living on his father's farm, and attending the neighborhood schools until he was
nineteen years of age. In 1874, he taught school in West Virginia, and in 1876
went to the Theological Seminary of Virginia, where he remained two years. While
there his health was shattered by typhoid fever, which nearly proved fatal.
Being called to teach in the Church School in Seguin, Tex., his health being
impaired, he accepted and taught till 1879, studying theology meanwhile, under
the principal, Rev. Wallace Carnahan.

  In 1879 he was ordained deacon by the late Bishop Elliott, at San Antonio,
Tex., and placed in charge of Boerne, Tex., and points adjacent. Having built a
neat church in this place, in 1881, he went to the University of the South,
Sewanee, Tenn., and remained two years. In 1883, he took charge of San Marcos,
Tex., and other points. While here he was ordained to the priesthood by the late
Bishop Elliott. In December, 1884, being called to Eufaula and Livingston, Ala.,
he accepted the latter, where he has remained up to date, having Boligee and
Gainesville, also, under his charge. He was married in December, 1885, to the
widow of the late Dr. Pettey and daughter of the late Jesse Weissinger, of
Dallas County, Ala.

  The great-grandfather of our subject, Col. Thomas Allen, came from County
Armagh, Ireland, and settled in Shenandoah Valley, Va., in 1732. He commanded a
regiment in the War of the Revolution, and was presented with a sword by the
State for distinguished services. The grandfather of our subject, D. H. Allen,
on of Col. Thomas Allen, was a graduate of Princeton College, studied and
practiced law for a time, but retired early to his estates, spending his time in
making the family residence, Clifton, one of the handsomest in the State. His
eldest sister married General Russell, of the Revolution, one of whose daughters
married a son of Henry Clay. D. H. Allen married a daughter of Col. Griffin
Taylor, whose wife was descended from Laird McKinnon and Lady Anne Maitland, of
Scotland. The father of our subject, also named W. T. Allen, graduated at
Princeton in 1839. In 1841 he went to the Pacific as Secretary to the Commodore
of the Pacific Squadron. In 1849 he married Miss E. Bayly, of Fauquier County,
Va., and settled on a farm, relieving the monotony of it by literary and
scientific pursuits. One of these was the study of ornithology. He made
life-size portraits of 150 species of Virginia birds, which, being submitted to
the late Professor Baird, of Smithsonian Institute head of the science in this
country—were pronounced by him to be "very spirited drawings and accurate
likenesses." He then took up botany, and is now engaged on an "Illustrated Flora
of the Shenandoah Valley," for which he has collected, classified and made
paintings of 740 species.

  The mother of our subject is descended from General Payne, on the one side,
and Thomas Greene, brother of Generals Moses and Dull Greene, of the Revolution.
Our subject's sister, Emma Allen, married Bushrod Charles Washington, grandson
of Charles Washington, brother of George Washington.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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