Biography of Andrew Allen, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 634 

Andrew Allen, one of the most extensive planters and land-owners of
Independence County, resides in Greenbriar Township. He was born at Arkansas
Post January 4, 1827, and when but six weeks old was taken by his parents to
Independence County, which county has ever since been his home. Abraham and
Sebella Allen, parents of Andrew, settled six miles east of Batesville,
afterward removing to a point south of the river, where the father died, May
22, 1873; he was a farmer and blacksmith, and at the time of his death was one
of the most wealthy men in the county. Abraham Allen was born in Orange County,
N. C., where he was reared and married; he afterward lived some time in
Tennessee before his removal to Arkansas, in 1827. He was of Irish-English
descent, served in one of the Indian wars, and was well known and respected.
His father, Samuel Allen, was one of the pioneers of Independence County, where
he lived a number of years, but spent the latter part of his life in Texas. The
maternal grandfather of our subject was Andrew Allen, brother of Samuel, and he
was also an early settler of Independence County, where he and wife died,
leaving several sons and daughters. The mother of our subject died when he was
young, and the father married again. Andrew received a limited common-school
education, and at the age of twenty-one years engaged in farming for himself.
In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Eighth Arkansas Infantry, and did service in
Kentucky and Tennessee until after the battle of Shiloh, when the army was re-
organized at Corinth, Miss., and he was discharged. He later joined Gen.
Price's army, and was with him on the raid in Missouri and Arkansas. In 1867
Mr. Allen married Emily P., daughter of Madison C. and Mary E. Snapp, natives,
respectively, of Virginia and East Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Snapp were married
[p.634] in Tennessee, and soon after moved to Arkansas, thence to Polk County,
Mo., where Mrs. Allen was born. Mrs. Snapp died in 1871, and Mr. Snapp, in
Missouri, in February, 1889; he was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have one son,
Robert Lee. Mr. Allen has resided on his present farm since the war. He owns
about 1,800 acres of land, 1,500 of which are fine bottom land; he inherited a
large amount from his father, but has enlarged his property by his own efforts,
and is one of the most successful and enterprising farmers in the county. He
devotes some attention to good cattle-breeding, and takes great interest in
stock raising. Mr. Allen's residence is four miles southeast of Batesville.
Politically, he is a Democrat.