Imperial-Riverside County CA Archives Biographies.....Allen, George W. 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

GEORGE W. ALLEN is numbered among the representative business men of El Centro.
The opportunities that Imperial County offers to men of enterprise are nowhere
better exemplified than in the successful career of George W. Allen. He was born
on a farm near Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, a son of John D. and Lucinda
(Sutherland) Allen. He received his education in the public schools where he was
born. He later attended the normal school at Mitchell, and later at Paoli,
Indiana. At the age of twenty-four he taught at the Clemens School in Orange
County, Indiana. Later he was made principal of the schools at New Lebanon,
Indiana, remaining in that position for two years. He purchased a farm in
Sullivan County, Indiana, where he personally cultivated and looked after his
place until 1903. He then came to California and located at Riverside, where he
engaged in the paint and wall paper business. Later, disposing of his business,
he traveled for some time, then removed to Imperial County and rented a ranch of
ten acres and by intensified farming of the place, made a clear profit the first
year of $800. He then engaged in the building and construction work in which he
made a success, after which he again engaged in ranching for a time, but owing
to the poor state of his health he was obliged to go to Hot Springs. Returning
to El Centro, Mr. Allen engaged in the real estate and loan business, which has
been profitable. Fraternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Riverside,
California. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Allen was twice married, the first
union being to Miss Bell Funk, of Sullivan County, Indiana. To this union were
born two daughters, Erma, wife of James Garrison of Carlisle, Indiana, and
Harriett, a graduate of the University of California, wife of James C. Bradley,
of Ceres, California. The second marriage took place in September, 1899, and
five children have been born to this union: Arthur L., Goldie R., Helen, Eva and
Woodrow Marshall. Mr. Allen's great-grandfather was Ethan Allen, of
Revolutionary fame, and on his mother's side was the Warren family of Vermont,
also of Revolutionary fame.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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